Wednesday, 9 December 2020

Top Schools of India: EducationWorld India School Rankings 2020-21

EducationWorld in association with the Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company C fore has released Part II of its 14th annual EducationWorld India School Rankings survey. A sample respondents database of 11,368 SEC (socio-economic category) ‘A’ parents, educationists, principals, teachers and senior school students in 28 cities and education hubs across India were interviewed to rate the country's Top 500 schools on 14 parameters of education excellence.

Bangalore, December 9, 2020 – Part II of the 14th annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) 2020-21 survey was released in Bangalore today. Part I of this annual survey –- the world’s largest schools rankings initiative -- which ranked India’s Day, Government and Special Needs schools, was released on November 10.

Part II rates and ranks the country’s Top 500 schools in three main and six sub-categories – Boarding (co-ed, girls and boys)International (day, day-cum-boarding, fully residential), as well as India’s best Private Budget schools.

In the league tables of the country’s most admired traditional/legacy Boarding schools, the top-ranked are: Rishi Valley School, Chittoor (co-ed boarding), Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior (girls) and The Scindia School, Gwalior (boys).

In the league table of India’s top International Day, Day-cum-Boarding and Residential schools, the top-ranked are: Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai (international day)Indus International School, Bengaluru (day-cum-boardingand Woodstock School, Mussoorie (fully residential).

St. Mary’s High School, Kalyan, Mumbai is the top-ranked Budget Private School (BPS) in 2020-21.

To conduct the 2020-21 EWISR survey, the Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company Centre for Forecasting and Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb.2000) constituted a sample respondents database of 11,368 individuals including school principals, teachers, educationists, fees-paying parents in SEC (socio-economic category) ‘A’, and senior school students in 28 major cities and education hubs across India. The sample respondents were persuaded to rate India’s most well-known 500 boarding, international schools and BPS on 14 parameters* of education excellence. To rate and rank the best BPS schools, parents in SEC ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ categories were also interviewed.

 “This year because the number of schools ranked has exceeded 2,500, we are obliged to publish our 15 league tables in two issues of EducationWorld. In Part II, the country’s more glamorous legacy boarding and international schools affiliated with off-shore examination boards are rated under 14 parameters of school education excellence,” says Dilip Thakore, Founder-editor of EducationWorld.

"The 14 parameters under which all schools are assessed in EWISR surveys have set new benchmarks in provision of holistic education. This year taking note of the huge education disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a new parameter -- curriculum and pedagogy (digital readiness) -- has been introduced to rate schools' online teaching-learning practices. Although interviewing sample respondents was more difficult in these pandemic times, our 120 field personnel have done a thorough job.” says Premchand Palety, Chief Executive of C fore.

* The 14 parameters of education excellence on which the schools are ranked:

·         Academic Reputation

·         Competence  of Faculty

·         Individual Attention to Students

·         Leadership/ Management Quality

·         Curriculum and pedagogy (digital readiness)

·         Co-curricular Education

·         Safety and Hygiene

·         Community Service

·         Internationalism

·         Parental Involvement

·         Teacher Welfare and Development

·         Value for Money

·         Sports Education

·         Infrastructure Provision 

About EducationWorld – 

EducationWorld (estb.1999) is Asia's sole education newsmagazine published to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”. Currently, EducationWorld has 1 million readers comprising teachers, parents and senior school and college students in 28 states countrywide. www.educationworld.in

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