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stand the importance of accurate and Far superior
fair rankings and believe that wrong IN YOUR latest EW India School
categorisation may have influenced Rankings 2023-24 issue (EW Sep-
your sample respondents, we request tember), I was disappointed to see
you to correct this classification and DPS, Visakhapatnam being ranked
revise the rankings accordingly. #1 and DPS, Visakhapatnam Steel
Rahul Shandilya Plant #2. In this connection I would
Vidya Vihar Residential School like to bring to your notice that DPS,
PURNEA Visakhapatnam is so poorly main-
tained that the reputed DPS Society
We regret this misclassification. de-affiliated it in 2019. This can be
Please note we will reclassify Usha verified on https://dpsfamily.org/
Martin World School as a day-cum- school-in-india.html.
boarding next year — Editor While the DPS Society recognises
the school as DPS, Anandpuram,
the school continues to be known as
Methodology questions
OCTOBER 2023 DPS, Visakhapatnam. Moreover the
I HAVE seen on many social media school (estb. 2014) does not have
handles and websites, several schools a principal, and their board exam
claiming they are ranked #1, #2 or results are inferior to our school. In
Information gold mines #3 in the EducationWorld India comparison, DPS, Visakhapatnam
HEARTIEST congratulations to School Rankings 2023-24. Steel Plant is the oldest DPS in South
EducationWorld for publishing the As a parent I wish to know India, with far superior infrastruc-
mammoth Part I and Part II volumes whether you really conduct any prior ture, proven board results etc. Please
of the EW India School Rankings audits or surveys before awarding rectify.
2023-24. Both issues are gold mines the rankings? How do you ascertain Samir Kumar Pandey
of information for aspirational the rankings and what rubrics do you Principal
parents. use to rank a school? DPS, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant
In particular, it was a pleasant Sirsendu Chakraborty on EMAIL
surprise to see the non-profit Future
Hope School, Kolkata — located in The EW India School Rankings are Exclusion plea
my neighbourhood — ranked among based on the opinion of informed WE RECENTLY became aware that
India's Top 10 Philanthropic Schools 18,928 parents, educators, teachers our school has been included in your
(EW October). The school is doing a and senior school students polled by annual school rankings even though
great job and their high rank is testi- the Delhi-based Centre for Forecast- we had not been contacted by your
mony to their hard work. Needless to ing & Research (C fore). Please see organisation, nor have we partici-
say, Bengal needs many more Future page 40 of the September issue for pated in any survey or evaluation
Hope schools. complete details — Editor related to this ranking.
Kudos once again! In light of this situation, we
Piyush Chakraborty request that you exclude Trio World
KOLKATA Light, please Academy or Trio World School from
PRABHAT KIDS School, Akola is a your international day school rank-
CBSE-affiliated school established ings for the current year and any
Errant misclassification two decades ago. This year we have subsequent years. We believe it is
THANK YOU for the honour con- been ranked #6 in Akola, #146 in essential for rankings to accurately
ferred on Vidya Vihar Residential Maharashtra & #342 nationally. Can reflect the participation and consent
School, Purnea, ranked Bihar’s #2 you kindly shed some light on the of the schools involved.
co-ed boarding school in the recently assessment/evaluation of our school Bishwajeet Bhattacharya
published EW India School Rankings and the reasons for awarding us a Executive Director, Trio World
2023-24 (EW October). disappointing 888 out of 1500. School, BENGALURU
However I would like to draw Abhijeet Joshi
your attention to Usha Martin World Prabhat Kids School, AKOLA See response above for rankings
School, ranked #1. This school is methodology. Secondly since TWS
essentially a day school with limited See editor’s response above provides a public service, ‘participa-
hostel facilities. While we under- tion’ is not optional — Editor

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