The Doon School

The Doon School is a boys-only independent boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. It was founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das, a Kolkata lawyer, who prevised a school modelled on the British public school, but conscious of Indian ambitions and desires. The school's first headmaster was an Englishman, Arthur E. Foot, who had spent nine years as a science master at Eton College, England before coming to Doon, and returned to England right after India's independence. The current headmaster is Matthew Raggett, who succeeded Peter McLaughlin in 2016, and is the fourth Englishman in Doon's history to head the school. He is a member of Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, UK.The school is a member of G20 Schools and Round Square group. Doon houses roughly 500 pupils aged 13 to 18. Admission to the school is based on a competitive entrance examination and an interview. Every year in January and April, the school admits pupils aged 13 in Grade 7 and aged 14 in Grade 8 respectively. Doon pupils take the International General Certificate of Secondary Education exams in tenth grade, which replaced Indian Certificate of Secondary Education in 2017, and are thereafter offered two strands for the final two years: International Baccalaureate or Indian School Certificate . The school began offering the IB curriculum only in 2006, before which all pupils had to sit the ISC examinations in twelfth grade.