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Rank Teacher welfare & development (100) Competence of faculty (200) Academic reputation (100) Co-curricular education & internationalism (100) Sports education (100) Curriculum & pedagogy (hybrid learning readiness) (100) Individual attention to students (100) Leadership / management Safety and hygiene (100) Infrastructure provision (100) Value for money (100) TOTAL SCORE (1200)
2019 2020 2021 2022 quality (100)

15 30 20 26 St. Mary’s Nursery & Primary School, Chennai 63 118 67 63 54 53 66 62 66 55 76 743
NR 22 22 27 Lotuslap Public School, Saroornagar, Hyderabad 62 112 67 66 49 61 65 63 66 55 75 741
NR NR NR 27 Holy Paradise High School, Vasai (W), Palghar 63 113 68 65 52 60 63 62 65 56 74 741
NR NR NR 28 Mother Teresa High School, Malad (W), Mumbai 64 113 68 63 52 62 61 62 64 63 64 736
NR 32 65 28 MP Shah School, Vile Parle (W), Mumbai 64 114 68 64 56 61 63 61 62 61 62 736
NR NR 82 29 St. Paul’s School, Ichalkaranji, Kolhapur 64 113 66 64 51 55 63 61 66 56 72 731
NR NR 59 30 Shri Rama Rural Academy, Chilumuru, Guntur 63 113 65 68 58 61 57 59 63 55 65 727

N THE SUPER 30 NATIONAL LEAGUE TABLE
2022-23, there is no change at top table which con-
tinues to be dominated by the Big 3 — St. Mary’s,
IKalyan (Mumbai), Mukarram Jah, Hyder-
abad and Muni International, Delhi.
This year St. Mary’s, Mumbai, a Microsoft certified
state board affiliated K-10 school which smoothly man-
aged the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic shutdown by
going online in double quick time, has been awarded #1+
ranking, a nose ahead of the superbly equipped Mukar-
ram Jah School, promoted by a trust founded by the
former Nizam of Hyderabad and awarded highest score
under the parameter of infrastructure. Muni Internation-
al, which has an enviable reputation for BPS excellence in
the national capital, retains its #2 rank of 2021-22 with
top score under the teacher competence parameter. St. Mary’s Bharat & Neelam Malilk
The biggest gainer in the Super 30 2022-23 is the
low-profile Nagarjuna High School, Kadapa (Andhra enthusiastically to our intensified IT-enabled training
Pradesh) which has been catapulted to #3 (from #9 in programmes to qualify as Microsoft innovative educa-
2021-22). With a few adjustments, the remaining seats at tor experts. This not only enabled us to keep the lamp of
the 2022-23 Top 10 table have been retained by last year’s learning burning in our school, but has also transformed
occupants with the exception of the previously unranked St. Mary’s into perhaps India’s sole BPS to provide high-
Pragati School, Ahmedabad which has made an im- quality hybrid learning programmes through IT empow-
pressive Top 10 debut. ered teachers mentoring digitally empowered students,”
“Our #1 rank in the EWIBPSR 2022-23 has given a says Bharat Malik, a former printing technologist
warm glow to the 33rd anniversary celebrations of St. and marketing professional who together with his wife
Mary’s. Somewhat paradoxically the long shutdown Neelam, an English literature postgrad of Bombay Uni-
of schools countrywide during the Covid pandemic versity with six years teaching experience at St. John Bap-
has strengthened the school as forced to go online, we tist School, Mumbai, promoted St. Mary’s High in 1989.
have improved our technological prowess. This prob- Champions of BPS and private schools, under the aegis
ably accounts for the #1+ ranking that St. Mary’s has of the Education Today Foundation (regstd. 2006), the
been awarded this year. Although your knowledgeable Maliks have also promoted a network of six top-ranked
sample respondents have awarded us top score on several preschools in suburban Mumbai, two K-12 CBSE (Delhi)
parameters, the highest under the parameter of teacher affiliated primary-secondary schools and the AryaGlobal
welfare and development is most satisfactory. During the Research and Training Institute, Mumbai for early child-
pandemic shutdown of schools, our teachers responded hood educators.

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