EducationWorld in association with the Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company C fore has released Part II of its 15th annual EducationWorld India School Rankings survey. A sample respondents database of 11,458 parents, educationists, principals, teachers and senior school students in 28 cities and education hubs across India were interviewed to rate the country’s Top 1,000 schools on 14 parameters of education excellence.

Bengaluru– Part II of the 15th annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) 2021-22- the world’s largest schools rankings initiative- survey was released in Bengaluru. Part II rates and ranks the country’s Top 1,000 schools in three main and six sub-categories – Boarding Schools (Co-ed, Girls and Boys), International Schools (Day, Day-cum-Boarding, Fully Residential) and Private Budget schools. These are the most comprehensive, in-depth and extensive league tables of any schools ranking survey worldwide.

Part I of this annual survey, which ranked India’s day, government and special needs schools, was released in November.

As per EWISR 2021-22, Part-II results, India’s #1 legacy Boarding Schools are-

• The Doon School, Dehradun (Boys),
• Welham Girls School, Dehradun (Girls) and
• Rishi Valley School, Chittoor (Co-ed Boarding).

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-Boarding) and
• Woodstock School, Mussoorie (Fully Residential).

St. Mary’s High School, Kalyan, Mumbai is the top-ranked Budget Private School in 2021-22.

To conduct the 2021-22 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 11,458 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 1,000 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.

“In the year of the Covid pandemic during which all schools countrywide were under government-imposed lockdown for over 60 weeks, two new parameters — ‘online education effectiveness’ and ‘mental and emotional well-being services’ — have been added .  In no country worldwide has such an extensive and comprehensive primary-secondary schools rankings survey has been undertaken, that provides insights into ways and means to continuously raise teaching-learning standards for the greater good of the community and country. We are proud to present the world’s largest and most sophisticated school rankings survey.” says DilipThakore, Founder-editor of EducationWorld.

“Although EWISR is primarily a perceptions-based survey, we have been publishing hard data including class XII school-leaving exam average scores of institutions willing to provide them. Moreover this year, the scores awarded under the important parameter of ‘teacher competence’ include teachers’ scores in a special online test administered by CENTA (Centre for Teacher Accreditation), a teacher development and certification company. These annual surveys are pragmatic and their great merit is that we have ideated over a dozen benchmarks for holistic school education, and generated huge nationwide awareness of the vital importance of well-rounded, balanced education.” says Premchand Palety, Chief Executive of C fore, explaining the ratings and ranking methodology of EWISR 2021-22.

* 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

•              Online Education Effectiveness

•              Parental Involvement

•              Teacher Welfare and Development

•              Value for Money

•              Mental and Emotional Well-being Services

•              Infrastructure Provision