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Cover Story EW GIRLS BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2020-21

cipal of Arsha Vidya Mandir, Chennai
who was appointed principal of WGS
in 2016, is unaware that national
opinion polls surveys accurately pre-
dict general and state legislative elec-
tion outcomes by interviewing fewer
sample respondents.
For instance, Centre for Forecast-
ing and Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore,
estb. 2000), the highly-reputed Del-
hi-based market research and opinion
polls company which has been con-
ducting the annual EWISR for this
sui generis publication since 2007,
successfully predicted the outcome
of the legislative assembly election
of Madhya Pradesh (pop.73 million)
held in December 2018, based on
pre-poll interviews with a mere 6,000
sample respondents. Against this the
EWISR sample respondents database EGIS’ Subhramanayan: progressive board boost
of 11,368, which includes education-
ists, principals, teachers and parents especially happy about the high score Unison World and Hopetown
to rate and rank 2,500-3,000 schools this new age girls boarding school has Girls schools. They are followed by
for EWISR 2020-21, is more than suf- been awarded under the parameters Vidya Devi Jindal, Hisar at #6 (#7
ficient. “It’s absurd to contend that of safety and hygiene and pastoral in 2019-20), Birla Balika Vidyap-
the number of sample respondents of care. eeth, Pilani #6 (6); Mody School,
EWISR 2020-21 is too small. Quite “In EGIS we believe that when stu- Lakshmangarh (Rajasthan) #7 (9);
the contrary,” says Premchand Pal- dents are provided a safe and healthy Convent of Jesus & Mary, Mus-
ety, CEO of C fore. environment they become academi- soorie #8 (11); Heritage Girls,
In sharp contrast Manija Sub- cally strong, well-balanced all-round Udaipur #9 (6) jointly with Van-
hramanayan, an English and edu- learners with interest in co-curricular tage Hall, Dehradun (8) and M.M.
cation postgraduate of Pune and and sports activities,” adds Subhra- Kothari International, Valsad
Mumbai universities, founder prin- manyan. Currently EGIS has 250 girl jointly ranked #10 with the previ-
cipal of the Iconic School, Bhopal, children mentored by 45 teachers on ously unranked Avasara Academy,
former principal of Oakridge School, its muster rolls. Pune which has made a spectacular
Vishakapatnam, Rockwell Interna- Apart from SKV, WGS and Mayo Top 10 table debut.
tional School, Hyderabad and cur- Girls which have dominated the Top It’s noteworthy that these last
rently principal of the all-girls Ecole 5 table for the past four years, other named institutions are the top-ranked
Globale International School, girls boarding schools which have girls boarding schools of Gujarat (pop.
Dehradun (EGIS, estb.2012), is risen high in the esteem of the in- 65 million) and Maharashtra (115 mil-
appreciative of the annual EWISR formed public are five institutions lion). It’s also notable that seven of
awards which celebrate and recognise in the state of Uttarakhand (pop.11 the country’s Top 10 girls boarding
the country’s best schools and their million), including the new-genre schools are based in the hilly, scenic
unsung leaders. state of Uttarakhand.
“We are highly elated that in these “It’s absurd to contend Further down the 24-strong league
testing pandemic times EGIS has that the number of sample table of sufficiently well-known all-
maintained its # 3 rank of last year. girls boarding schools, two institu-
Our management team is very grate- respondents of EWISR tions have risen high in the esteem
ful for the support we have received 2020-21 is too small. of knowledgeable monitors of India’s
from our progressive board for boost- school education system. They are
ing our morale and contributing new Quite the contrary,” says the previously unranked St. Hil-
ideas to enable the smooth switch Premchand Palety, CEO of da’s School, Ooty and Him Jyoti
to teaching-learning in the digital C fore School, Dehradun which have de-
mode,” says Subhramanyan who is buted at #16 and 18 this year.

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