Riverside School is a 400-student pre-K–12 private school in urban Ahmedabad, India. It was founded in 2001 by Kiran Sethi, a designer, who saw an opportunity to improve local schooling for India’s children, starting with her own. Adopting a user-centric vision and utilizing a design-thinking approach, Sethi and her cofounders put students at the center of the endeavor to create a new educational program that emphasizes relationships, projects, and a global citizenship perspective that teaches students to do good while doing well. The result is a highly engaged community of learners who realize it is their privilege and obligation to solve real problems and make the world a better place for those who come after.
- For 13 consecutive years, Riverside has ranked in the top 10 schools in India, in the national benchmark ASSET examinations conducted by Education Initiatives.
- Since 2013, 98% of Riverside students have gone on to four-year colleges.
- Designated a Changemaker School in 2015 by the Ashoka Foundation.
