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national, Noida (23), Amity Inter- to dispute the national EWISR rank- day schools modestly ranked nation-
national, Noida (66), Shiv Nadar ings and take issue with your editors. ally are #1 or highly ranked in more
School, Noida (37), together with However this gentry should bear in important city and state league tables.
Children’s Academy, Kandivali, mind that schools modestly ranked For instance, City Montessori
Mumbai (22). in the national league table are often School, Lucknow ranked #42 in
It bears reiteration that the co-ed highly venerated in their host cities the national co-ed day school league
day schools league table is invariably and states, some of the latter more table, is #1 in Lucknow, the admin
the biggest and most detailed in the populous than foreign countries. It’s capital of Uttar Pradesh (pop. 215 mil-
annual EWISR with 2,300 mixed also important for them to note that lion); DPS, Patna #147 India is #1
gender schools included this year. for day schools, city rankings are in Bihar (pop.119 million). Similarly,
That the great majority of India’s best more important than national rank- Sanskriti The Gurukul is India
3,500-4,000 schools out of a universe ings which at best provide bragging #100 but #1 in Assam (pop.34.5 mil-
of 1.60 million are co-ed institutions is rights. Hence for day schools the an- lion ) and Rajgiri Christu Jayanthi
evidence of progress towards gender nual EWISR features city rankings Public School, Kochi ranked India
egalitarianism. Therefore, promot- first, followed by state and national #117, is the premier co-ed day school
ers, managements and teachers of all league tables last. of Kerala (pop.33 million).
institutions included in the co-ed day Consequently for parents and stu- Such wide disparities abound in
schools league table of EWISR 2022- dents in India’s commercial and fi- the EWISR 2022-23 league tables of
23 deserve commendation for ac- nance capital, Mumbai, the #1 rank all day schools. Therefore, parents and
cording equal importance and oppor- of the Jamnabai Narsee School, institutional managements are ad-
tunities for historically neglected girl Mumbai is of greater import than its vised to study the city and state league
children. They should also take pride #9 national rank. Likewise the #1 rank tables of day schools with greater care
that co-ed schools dominate EWISR of Glendale Academy in Hyderabad is and diligence than parents, teachers
2022-23 and are set to multiply. of greater significance to the school’s and students of boarding/residential
It’s quite normative for some management and parents than its na- schools which have wider catchment
school promoters and/or principals tional rank. Indeed numerous co-ed areas.

Teachers’ estimate of pandemic-induced learning loss (%)
EWISR 2022-23 Trends

81
78

57
51

LANGUAGE MATHS CO-CURRICULAR SOFT SKILLS
EDUCATION LEARNING
Source: This trend analysis has been collated by slicing, dicing and interpreting data/responses of 14,221 parents,
senior teachers, principals and educators interviewed in 28 education hubs by the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting
& Research (C fore) for the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2022-23 survey

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