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school to give five city toppers in Transparency request
class X and XII board examinations. I AM writing to you on behalf of
The children of our school are also Sunbeam School Deoria. For the
shining stars in various CBSE and third consecutive year, our school
SGFI sports tournaments. has been placed in second position,
In light of this excellent record, and while we have no objections
we fail to understand the #2 rank- to this placement, we are eager to
ing (Indore city) given to us, and we understand the specific criteria on
want to know the parameters for the which the rankings are based. We
ranking and judgement. want to identify the areas where
I would further like to inform we may be lacking and work on
you that we haven’t volunteered for improving them. We believe that
participation in the survey. Despite transparency in the evaluation
this we have been rated and ranked. process will help us enhance
This is not acceptable to us. our efforts in providing the best
Dr. Anju Chopra education and facilities to our
SEPTEMBER 2024 Principal, Sri Sathya Sai Vidya students.
Vihar, INDORE Principal, Sunbeam School,
DEORIA
Laudable innovations All well-known schools rated and
KUDOS TO Team EW for publishing ranked by more than 20 sample re- EWISR is based on the perceptions
the EducationWorld India School spondents are evaluated and ranked of 8,700 sample respondents com-
Rankings 2024-25 Part I (EW in the annual EWISR, regardless of prising parents, principals, teach-
September). It’s a good decision to voluntary participation. We believe ers, educators interviewed by the
publish only the Top 100 co-ed day Article 19 (1) (a) of the Constitution market research firm AZ Research
schools in the print magazine. Not endows us the fundamental right to Partners. The sample respondents
only will this save your organisation do so — Editor award scores to every school under
costly newsprint but also inspire 14 parameters of school excellence.
schools in Tier II-III cities and towns For full survey methodology see
— most of whom are ranked online — Welcome new partnership p.39 EW September — Editor
to improve their education standards CONGRATULATIONS for bringing
to move into the Top 100. out the humongous EducationWorld
Also laudable is your initiative to India School Rankings (EW Septem- Corrigenda
introduce the Global Young Scholar ber) uninterruptedly for the past 17 • In the Co-ed Day-cum-Boarding
Talent Search Test in partnership years. I welcome your new partner- schools league table, the parameter
with the US-based Global Young ship with AZ Research Partners Pvt. and total scores of Chennai Public
Scholar, and the Higher Order Ltd. I believe this partnership will School, Thirumazhisai (#9) and
Thinking Test with LogIQids. These invest EWISR with additional reli- Shree Sarasswathi Vidhyaah Mand-
innovations give greater heft to EW- ability and robustness. heer, Coimbatore (#9) are wrongly
ISR and set it in a class apart. Dhananjay Rao printed in the national league table
Dipika Maiti CHENNAI (p.252). However, their total scores
KOLKATA (1200) are correctly printed in the
Tamil Nadu State table (p.261).
Important difference Similarly, the total score of Sri
Not acceptable GREENFIELD Convent School (West Ram Centennial School, Patna (#8)
SRI SATHYA Sai Vidya Vihar, Indore Bengal) extends its heartfelt thanks is incorrectly printed (p.252). The
is a leading educational institution to Team EducationWorld for rank- correct score is 1202. For the cor-
of Madhya Pradesh and we firmly ing our school Janaphul’s #1 co-ed rected scores of these schools please
believe in balancing academic excel- day school. However, I would like to visit www.educationworld.in.
lence with value education. Our bring to your notice that our school • In the Co-ed Day schools category
school has been giving city toppers is sited in Habra while Janaphul is of EWISR 2024-25, The Modern
in the CBSE class X and XII board only the demographic location. School, Barmer has been inadver-
examinations continuously for the Santanu Goswami tently placed in Haryana instead of
past three years. Moreover this year Principal, Greenfield Convent Rajasthan.
we created history by being the only School, HABRA We regret these errors — Editor

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