Over the past four months 140 C fore field personnel interviewed 10,301 parents, principals, teachers and senior school students in 28 cities countrywide, and persuaded them to rate schools in their region on a ten-point scale across 14 parameters of education excellence - Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen

In this category in which competition to excel is most intense and rankings tend to fluctuate from year to year, The Valley School, Bangalore, ranked #6 last year, is the country’s top-ranked primary-secondary of 2016

In the category of relatively progressive co-ed boarding schools, the reign of the Rishi Valley School, Chittoor, established by philosopher-savant J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986), shows no sign of ending

Since 2013, when international schools were sub-divided into three categories, the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai has dominated the international day schools league table

The country’s well-funded 1,117 Central government-promoted Kendriya Vidyalayas and 596 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools dominate the EW league tables of government day and boarding schools

Over the past two decades, budget private schools have multiplied as bottom-of-pyramid households have cottoned on that real education (including English language learning) is the passport to upward mobility

The objective of the EW league table ranking the country’s most respected special needs schools is to enable parents to make informed choices, as also to acknowledge the country’s pioneer institutions in this important category