Boarding schools of Dehradun and Mussoorie have featured in the top ten rankings in the annual survey carried out by Education World India School Rankings .In the girls’ boarding schools category, Welham Girls is at Number one while Mussoorie International School and Unison World School are adjudged number 4.The Doon School is adjudged as number one in the boys’ boarding schools category .Welham Boys’ is at number 2 and RIMC at number 6. In the co-ed boarding schools category, Kasiga School is at number 8 and Wynberg Allen School at number 10. Woodtsock School, Mussoorie, ranks number one in the international residential school category .
EducationWorld in association with C fore, Delhi has concluded its 10th annual EducationWorld India School Rankings survey in 28 cities and education hubs across India to rate the country’s top 1000 schools. The country’s top-ranked schools in 13 categories will be felicitated in New Delhi on September 23-24, 2016.
The 10th annual Education World India School Rankings (EWISR) 2016 survey was released in Bengaluru on September 8. The survey rates and ranks the country’s top 1,000 schools in 13 categories, including Day Boys, Girls, Co-ed and Day-cum boarding, Boarding and International Schools.
The Valley School, Bangalore (day co-ed), Modern School, Barakhamba Road, Delhi (day-cum-boarding), The JB Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai (all-girls) and Campion School, Fort, Mumbai (all-boys) are ranked India’s most admired Day Schools in EWISR 2016.
In the traditional/legacy Boarding Schools category, Rishi Valley School, Chittoor (co-ed), Welham Girls, Dehradun (all-girls), and The Doon School, Dehradun (all-boys) maintained their top positions of last year.
Dhirubhai Ambani International, Mumbai (day), Indus International, Bangalore (day-cum-boarding) and Good Shepherd International School, Ooty jointly with Woodstock School, Mussoorie (wholly residential) are top-ranked in the International Schools category.
A total of 10,301 parents, teachers, principals, educationists and senior students in 28 cities countrywide were interviewed by 140 field researchers of the well-reputed market research and opinion polls company Centre for Forecasting and Research Pvt ltd (C fore), Delhi to rate and rank 1,000 of the country’s most well-known schools against 14 parameters of education excellence.
“EWISR 2016 is the most comprehensive schools rating and ranking exercise in Indian history. Over 10,300 parents, principals, teachers, educationists and for the first time senior students, across the country, were interviewed by our field researchers over a four-month period. The outcome of this massive exercise are over 100-plus league tables which provide valuable information to parents looking for schools suitable for the aptitudes and personalities of their children,” says Premchand Palety, chief executive of C fore, explaining the ratings and ranking methodology of EWISR 2016.
Moreover for the second time, separate league tables of India’s top Government day and residential schools, special needs and budget private schools are included. (Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom (Kerala) is ranked India’s #1 Government Day School and Simultala Awasiya Vidyalaya, Jamui (Bihar), is the #1 Government Boarding School. Tamana Autism Centre — School of Hope, Delhi is ranked #1 among Special Needs Schools and Muni International School, Delhi is the top-ranked Budget Private School.
“The 100-plus league tables of the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2016 are the most comprehensive schools assessment survey in the subcontinent, and perhaps worldwide. The purpose behind these annual nationwide surveys is to alert school promoters, principals and teachers who tend to live in ivory towers that their education delivery performance is being evaluated, measured and compared with schools countrywide on a broad range of parameters,” says Dilip Thakore, founder-editor of EducationWorld.
EducationWorld (estb.1999) is Asia’s sole education newsmagazine published to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the no1 item on the national agenda”. Currently, EducationWorld has 1 million readers comprising teachers, parents and senior school and college students in 28 States countrywide.