New Delhi: Delhi’s Vasant Valley School is the best of its kind (co-education, day school) in the country. In fact, five of the top-10 co-ed day schools in the country are in Delhi-NCR — The Shri Ram School (Gurgaon-Delhi) is fourth, Step by Step (Noida) is fifth and Springdales School (Dhaula Kuan) and Sanskriti School (Chanakyapuri) are seventh and ninth respectively.
Over 5,000 “fees-paying parents, teachers, principals and educationists” across India were surveyed for the Education World India School Rankings 2013 and at total of 593 day, 75 boarding and 57 international primary-secondary schools have been ranked. “Respondents were asked to rate schools of whom they were aware on a 10-point scale — except for ‘competence of faculty’ parameter,” says Premchand Palety of Cfore which did the ranking. Any school which got less than 25 respondents to mention it was automatically dropped from the list. The survey was conducted in 21 cities.
The Valley School (Bangalore) has got top rank in the day-cum-boarding category; Modern High School (Kolkata) and Campion School (Mumbai) are the top girls’ and boys’ schools in the country. Among the boarding schools Rishi Valley School (Chittoor) topped in co-ed category, while Welham Girls School (Dehradun) and The Doon School (Dehradun) ranked first in girls’ and boys’ categories respectively. The international day schools list is dominated by Mumbai schools — there are five as opposed to only two from Delhi-NCR (both Gurgaon). Delhi-NCR does better on the day-cum-boarding list —it features five.
