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An important caveat for readers and
all stakeholders in K-12 education to
note, is that especially for day schools,
national and state rankings are of little
relevance and at best confer bragging
rights. For the self-evident reason that
parents are highly unlikely to move
home and hearth from cities where
they work to enable their progeny
to attend nationally top-ranked day
schools. For them, city and often civic
ward rankings are of greater import.
Although the annual EWISR which
rates the country’s 3,000 best schools
to acknowledge and encourage them
to rise to highest global standards
— already the world’s largest school
rankings survey — don’t go down to
the micro level, with close study and
Suchitra Academy’s Praveen Raju: mind, body, soul education commitment application, parents and students can
shortlist, if not select, the most geo-
Bengal (pop.90 million); G i t an j al i , the pandemic to provide effective and graphically convenient and aptitudi-
H yde rab ad promoted to #13 (c f. 19 meaningful online teaching-learning nally suitable schools for their chil-
in 2020-21), DP S, B e n g al uru E as t has won us our good reputation,” says dren. It’s for this reason that the cover
#14 (19), Si l v e r O ak s I n t e rn at i o n - J as m i n e N i z ar, a physics, computer story layout for day schools features
al , H yde rab ad #15 (19). application and education postgrad city before state and national rankings.
Further down the 1,928-strong of Madurai Kamaraj University and In this connection, please note
league table of India’s most admired former teacher at the TVS Lakshmi that the E k l av ya Scho o l , Ahm e d -
co-ed day schools, the C he t t i n ad School, Madurai (2004-11). Since ab ad ranked #19 nationally, is rou-
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H ari Shre e i dyal ayam , he n n ai 2011, she has risen in the ranks and tinely ranked #1 in the textiles city of
ranked #23 (47) and #5 in Chennai; was appointed principal early this Ahmedabad. Likewise, i t y M o n t e s -
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B o m b ay Sco t t i s h M um b ai #25 year. Currently, this CISCE-affiliated s o ri , o m t i N ag ar at #33 is regular-
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(49); i rl a O p e n M i n ds Acade m y, school has 1,470 children mentored by ly ranked #1 in Lucknow and in Uttar
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H yde rab ad #26 (30); C hi l dre n ’ s 131 teachers. Pradesh (pop.215 million).
Acade m y, M al ad, M um b ai #27 CHSV’s principal Jasmine Nizar: speedy online switch
(53) and o n t f o rt Se n i o r Se co n d -
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ary Scho o l , De l hi #30 (39) have re-
ceived substantial promotions in the
national and more importantly, city
rankings which are more relevant for
day schools.
“We are very happy to learn that
our low-profile school which was
ranked #228 in 2018-19 and #47 last
year has been included among India’s
Top 25 and Tamil Nadu #5 in 2021-
22. I attribute our big promotion to
our director Smt. Geetha Mathiah’s
dedication to providing safe, caring,
culturally-rooted and joyful educa-
tion to our children. Apart from this,
the speed and commitment with
which our teachers switched to on-
line platforms, digital tools and peda-
gogies during the past 18 months of

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