Top Schools of India: EducationWorld India School Rankings 2014

BANGALORE, India - Sept. 10, 2014 - PRLog -- The Shri Ram School, Vasant Vihar/Moulsari, Delhi (co-ed), the Daly College, Indore (day-cum-boarding), La Martiniere for Girls, Kolkata (all-girls) and Campion School, Mumbai (all-boys) are ranked India’s most admired Day Schools in the globally unprecedented league tables of EducationWorldIndia School Rankings 2014.

Sahyadri School, Pune (co-ed), Welham Girls, Dehradun (all-girls), and Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (all-boys) were ranked No.1 in the traditional/legacy Boarding Schools category.

Dhirubhai Ambani International, Mumbai (day), Indus International, Bangalore (day-cum-boarding) and Kodaikanal International School (wholly residential) were voted No.1 in the International Schools category.

A total of 8,263 fees-paying parents, teachers, principals and educationists in 25 cities countrywide were interviewed by 203 field researchers of the well-reputed market research and opinion polls company  Centre for Forecasting Pvt. Ltd  (C fore), Delhi to rate and rank 704 of the country’s most well-known day, 84 boarding and 63 international primary-secondary schools.

“Respondents were asked to rate schools on a ten-point scale – except for the vital parameter of ‘competence of faculty’ which is given double weightage -- against 14 parameters of education excellence. The scores awarded by respondents to schools under each parameter were rounded off and totalled for ranking schools in each sub-category. The outcome of this elaborate exercise is the most accurate ever comparative school rankings,” says Premchand Palety, chief executive of C fore, explaining the ratings and ranking methodology of the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2014.

Moreover this year a separate table of Top 10 Government day and residential schools has been included for which 1,000 parents in the SEC B, C and D categories were also interviewed. Kendriya Vidyalaya, IIT-Madras is ranked India’s #1 government day school while Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Bhopal is the country’s #1 government boarding school.

Apart from national, state, and city league tables, this year the EW India School Rankings league tables include the average exam scores of CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) and CISCE (Council of Indian School Certificate Examination)-affiliated schools. Additionally, the average exam scores of Top 100 CBSE and CISCE schools are included. Mayo College, Ajmer tops the CICSE schools league table with an 89.8 percent average (English + Best 3 subjects) in ISC class XII exam and DAV Girls Sr. Sec. Secondary School, Lloyds Road, Chennai is top-ranked among CBSE schools with 91 percent in class XII (English + Best 4 subjects).

"The objective of the annual EW India School Rankings is to track and proclaim the country’s best schools as role models for the entire community of educators, and inspire top-ranked schools themselves to improve from good to great. The annual EW India School Rankings have generated positive sentiments of institutional pride and inspired committed education leaders and principals to work for continuous improvement of schools under their charge, as also parent communities to transform into pressure groups for holistic K-12 education," says Dilip Thakore,  founder- editor of EducationWorld.

About EducationWorld –

EducationWorld (estb. 1999) is Asia's sole education news and analysis (monthly) magazine published with a mission to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the No. 1 item on the national agenda”. Currently EducationWorld has 1 million readers comprising teachers, parents and senior school and college students in 28 states around the country.

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