The prestigious Welham Girls’ School of the Doon valley has been ranked No. 1 in the traditional/legacy boarding schools category by the annual School Rankings brought out by ‘Education World’ in association with C-Fore, Delhi.
Sahyadri School (co-ed), Pune and Bishop Cotton School (all boys), Shimla were also ranked No. 1 in the traditional boarding schools category in these annual Education World India School rankings survey in 25 cities and education hubs across the country to rate 931 schools.
The country’s top Day, Boarding and International schools will be felicitated in New Delhi on September 20. 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.
This ranking features many Dehradun and Mussoorie Schools in the top 10 Rankings nationwide which is a matter of pride for these Cities/State. In the girls boarding schools category, Unison World School, Dehradun has been ranked at No. 3, Ecole Globale International Girls School, Dehradun at No. 4, Mussoorie International School at No. 7 and Hopetown Girls School, Dehradun at No.10.
In the Boys Boarding schools category, the Doon School has been ranked at No. 2, Welham Boys School at No. 5 and RIMC at No. 6. In the Residential Schools category, Woodstock School Mussoorie is at No.2. 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 Education World India School Rankings 2014.
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. “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. Education World, established in 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, Education World has 1 million readers comprising teachers, parents and senior school and college students in 28 States around the country.