Greenwood High achieves stellar results
The other toppers from the school are Swarna Chaudhary, Aanya P Minnamareddy and Raghav Dixit who each scored 99.60%. In ISC, the toppers from the school are Arnay Gupta from Science with an aggregate of 99.50%, Sanidhya Kapoor from Commerce with 98.75% and Smayana Meswani in Humanities with 98.75 %.
Additionally, Deepthi Menon from Science scored 99.25%, Trisha Shub from Commerce scored 98.25% and Kaustubh Keshav & Ankita Padmanabh from Humanities scored 98.5% respectively.
'I'm truly proud and overjoyed with my ICSE results.
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