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Cover Story EW INDIA IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL RANKINGS 2025-26

INDIA’S SUPER NOVA IVY

LEAGUE BOARDING SCHOOLS

Responding to feedback and
advice of Raymond Ravaglia,
a Director of the US-based
education research firm
Launchpad Rankings LLC,
EW presents a new category
of cluster ranked boarding
schools with consistently
high scores under critical
parameters of primary-
secondary education
excellence

lthough cadillac commu-
nists and woke liberals
who dominate the media
Awill never agree, over the Mayo College principal Saurav Sinha: new technologies & branding initiatives
past 25 years since it was launched,
EducationWorld (estb.1999) has tionWorld India School Rankings, pride and compete for higher rank,
transformed the country’s education introduced in 2007, which rates and the entire system is uplifted as lower
landscape. Now, there is a palpable ranks schools under several param- ranked schools learn about the best
sense of urgency about developing eters of primary-secondary education practices of their peers.
this slothful republic’s abundant and excellence, has had the beneficial This is especially true because
high-potential human resource. outcome of jolting awake conscien- unlike school ranking surveys in the
In notable departure from estab- tious leaders of the country’s 1.40 idealized West which rank schools
lished tradition, media pundits now million primary-secondary schools. under the solitary parameter of
routinely include education reform Since then every September, great learning outcomes, ab initio in the
in the lengthy national develop- excitement is generated within their annual EWISR we introduced the
ment prescriptions they write to managements, faculty and students concept of evaluating schools under
vault performance-laggard India before and after publication of the several parameters — which have
into the club of developed nations. annual EWISR league tables rating grown to 14 — on the premise that
Gradually — perhaps too gradually and ranking the country’s most ad- best schools are institutions that
— public opinion is warming to the mired 4,000-4,500 schools in three provide balanced, holistic, including
EW proposition that quality educa- major (day, boarding and interna- sports, co-curricular education and
tion for all (QEFA) is the essential tional) categories and 14 sub-catego- also build comprehensive teaching-
precondition of attaining the Viksit ries (to eliminate apples with oranges learning ecosystems by paying
Bharat and $30 trillion GDP (cf. 4 type comparisons). This is in the na- attention to teacher welfare and
trillion currently) goals set for 2047, tional interest. Because when school development, community service,
the centenary year of India’s inde- leaders and managements — totally parental involvement, leadership
pendence from almost 200 years of ignored by the mainstream media development, mental and emotional
foreign rule. until EducationWorld arrived on the well-being services etc. Contrary to
Similarly, the pioneer Educa- media scene — develop institutional widespread parental expectation,

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