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GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS                                  SPECIAL NEEDS
                          DAY                          BOARDING
               1   Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya,      1   Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV),     1   Academy for Severe Handicaps and
                  Sector 10 Dwarka, Delhi          Bagalur, Bengaluru Urban        Autism (ASHA), Bengaluru
               2   Kendriya Vidyalaya — IIT Madras, Chennai    2   JNV, Chennithala, Alappuzha, Kerala    2   The Aditya Birla Integrated School, Mumbai
               3   Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom,     3   Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Sonipat    3   Tamana Autism Centre — School of Hope,
                  Thiruvananthapuram            4   Oak Grove School, Dehradun      Delhi
               4   GVHSS for Girls, Nadakkavu, Kozhikode    5   JNV, Gachibowli, Ranga Reddy Dist.    4   S.P.J. Sadhana School, Mumbai
               5   Worli Seaface Mumbai Public      6   Simultala Awasiya Vidyalaya, Jamui (Bihar)    5   Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan (MBCN),
                  English School                7   JNV, Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh)      Noida
               5   Kendriya Vidyalaya — IIT Powai, Mumbai    8   JNV, Neriamangalam, Ernakulam    5   Sankalp, Chennai
               6   Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya,     9   JNV, Chendayad, Kannur (Kerala)    6   Alpha to Omega Learning Centre, Chennai
                  Sector 11 Rohini, Delhi       10   JNV, Pimpale, Pune          7   Sweekaar Academy of Rehabilitation
               7   Kendriya Vidyalaya,          10   Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya,       Sciences (SARS), Secunderabad
                  No 2, Naval Base, Cochin         Patharchepa, Balangir         7   The Gateway School, Mumbai
               8   Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya,                             8   Asha Kiran Special Needs School,
                  Sector 5 Dwarka, Delhi                                           Bengaluru
               9   Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya,                             9   Sanchetna, Noida
                  Yamuna Vihar, Delhi                                            10   Jai Vakeel School, Mumbai
               9   Government Model Senior Secondary                             10   Aatman Academy, Thane
                  School, Manimajra, Chandigarh
               10   Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya,
                  Hatiota Village, Ganjam district   To compile EWISR 2021-22, 11,458 sample
               10   Mumbai Public School, Poonam Nagar,
                  Jogeshwari (East), Mumbai   respondents — educationists, principals, teachers,
                                              SECA (socio-economic category A) parents and senior
                                              school students — in 28 cities countrywide were
                                              interviewed by 118 C fore field researchers over a
                                              period of four months (June-September). The annual
                                              EWISR is the world’s largest schools ranking survey


                                              Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
              S              OMEWHAT TENTATIVELY LAUNCHED      parents and senior school students are interviewed by field



                                                               personnel of our valued partner, the Delhi-based Centre
                             in 2007, the annual EducationWorld
                             India  School  Rankings  (EWISR),
                                                               for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb.2000), a
                             which  rates  and  ranks  primary-sec-
                                                               nationally reputed market research and opinion polls com-
                             ondary schools countrywide which at
                                                               pany. They are asked to rate schools in their zonal region
                             that time were mainly reputed for aca-
                                                               parameter of teacher competence accorded double weight-
                             demic education, has evolved and ma-
                                                               age. The scores awarded to schools under each parameter
                             tured into the world’s largest schools   under each parameter on a scale of 1-100 with the critical
                             rating and ranking initiative.    by  the  sample  respondents  are  totaled  and  schools  are
                We believed — and continue to believe — that education   ranked inter se nationally, in the states and cities.
              should be a holistic and enjoyable learning experience for   The objective of this annual exercise is to enable parents
              children. Therefore every year, EWISR rates over 3,000 of   to choose the most convenient and aptitudinally suitable
              India’s best reputed primary-secondaries on 14 parameters   school for their children. To facilitate choice of this all-im-
              of excellence including teacher welfare and development,   portant institution, schools are ranked in 14 separate and
              teacher  competence,  infrastructure,  co-curricular  and   distinct categories such as co-ed day, day-cum-boarding,
              sports education, parental involvement, academic reputa-  all-boys and exclusively girls schools, legacy co-ed, boys
              tion, curriculum and pedagogy, internationalism, among   and girls boarding schools and international schools. This
              several other parameters.                        is to avoid making apples and oranges type comparisons.
                For this annual exercise, over 11,000 sample respon-  The annual EWISR has also proved very useful for in-
              dents including eminent educators, principals, teachers,   stitutional managements because it provides them with an

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