EducationToday is one of the best magazines in India focussing on the education sector. Being the top education magazine, we also conduct numerous conferences and award ceremonies. Our award ceremonies and conferences are known for being the best educational gathering in the country.
We recently conducted the 11 th National Conference on K-12 Leadership and India School Merit Awards 2023-24 at The Taj, Bangalore Airport on December 11, 2023. The event was a gala ceremony, witnessing the attendance of the top educationists in India all under one roof.
This year, 28 schools from across the country were among the Top 20 ICSE Schools in India category. Some schools outperformed equally, thus leading to a tie in the ranks.
Our mission is to find the best schools in India and encourage them for their efforts. We at EducationToday made a perception-based ranking system for schools, one with utmost transparency. This system includes a thorough analysis of the inputs from the survey forms received, analysis from the survey team, parental votes and special jury inputs. As expected, this was a huge challenge owing to the diverse number of schools in India, all the way from Aanganwadis to the elitist of private institutions, each with countless variations. Some are funded by the centre, others by the state, and still more get direct funding from industrialists, NGOs and the like. Then all the education boards have to be taken into consideration –CBSE, ICSE, IGCSE, IB plus an overwhelming number of state boards.
However, why do we award?
It is our way of finding the best from the list of schools in India. Because, as a parent, we are all capable of affording education to our kids, but ensuring our kids get the best, is a task. Our perception-based ranking system acts as a compass for you, to decide which school to go ahead with as we follow an exhaustive list of parameters to choose the best from the best.
Our parameters include
- ➤ Academic reputation
- ➤ Digital learning advancement
- ➤ Individual Attention to Students
- ➤ Future Proof Learning Infrastructure
- ➤ Student Advancement & Mentoring
- ➤ Leadership in Quality Management
- ➤ Teacher’s Advancement & Well-being
- ➤ Psychological well-being of Students
- ➤ Holistic Education
- ➤ Value For Money
- ➤ Co-Curricular Education
- ➤ Sports Education
- ➤ Innovative Teaching
- ➤ Community Service
- ➤ Integrated Learning
Over 500 plus schools from all over India made the cut and these names were then passed onto the next stage where they were vetted by our jury, educational experts, a team of analysts, and, of course, parents. With the help of their combined inputs, we handpicked the schools that truly deserved to be on our top 20 lists. We also decided to take social media into account (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google) in addition to our portal (educationtoday.co), as it receives over 70,000 hits per day.
Accommodating the numerous categories of schools and parameters, the awards distributed this year were:
India’s Top 20 International Schools (IB/CAIE)
India’s Top 10 International Schools (IGCSE)
India’s Top 20 Day-cum-Boarding Schools (National)
India’s Top 10 Day-cum-Boarding Schools (International)
India’s Top 10 Boarding Schools
India’s Top 20 State Board Schools
India’s Top 3 Boys Day Schools
India’s Top 3 Boys Day-cum-Boarding Schools
India’s Top 5 Boys Boarding Schools
India’s Top 5 Girls’ Day Schools
India’s Top 5 Girls' Day-cum-Boarding Schools
India’s Top 5 Girls’ Boarding Schools
India’s Top CBSE Schools City-wise
India’s Top ICSE Schools City-wise
India’s Top International Schools City-wise
India’s Top Day-cum-Boarding Schools City-wise
India’s Top Boarding Schools City-wise
India’s Top State Board Schools City-wise
India’s Top CBSE Schools Parameter wise
India’s Top ICSE Schools Parameter wise
India’s Top Boarding Schools Parameter wise
India’s Top International Schools Parameter wise
India’s Top Day-cum-Boarding Schools Parameter wise
India’s Top State Board Schools Parameter wise
India’s Top CBSE Emerging Schools
India’s Top ICSE Emerging Schools
India’s Top International Emerging Schools
India’s Top State-Board Emerging Schools
This year, India’s Top 20 ICSE Schools awards were bagged by
1 | Greenwood High International School | Bengaluru, Karnataka | Ranked No.1 in Bengaluru, Ranked No.1 in Karnataka, Ranked No.1 in India |
2 | Johnson Grammar School ICSE & ISC | Hyderabad, Telangana | Ranked No.1 in Hyderabad, Ranked No.1 in Telangana, Ranked No.2 India |
Gitanjali Senior School | Hyderabad, Telangana | Ranked No.1 in Hyderabad, Ranked No.1 in Telangana, Ranked No.2 India | |
3 | St Joseph’s Academy | Dehradun, Uttarakhand | Ranked No.1 in Dehradun, Ranked No.1 in Uttarakhand, Ranked No.3 in India |
4 | Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School | Thane (West), Maharashtra | Ranked No.1 in Thane, Ranked No.1 in Maharashtra, Ranked No.4 in India |
N.L Dalmia High School | Thane, Maharashtra | Ranked No.1 in Thane, Ranked No.1 in Maharashtra, Ranked No.4 in India | |
5 | Holy Heart Schools | Amritsar, Punjab | Ranked No.1 in Amritsar, Ranked No.1 in Punjab, Ranked No.5 in India |
6 | Greenwood High School | Bengaluru, Karnataka | Ranked No.2 in Bengaluru, Ranked No.2 in Karnataka, Ranked No.6 India |
Presidency School – RT Nagar | Bengaluru, Karnataka | Ranked No.2 in Bengaluru, Ranked No.2 in Karnataka, Ranked No.6 India | |
7 | The Chintels School | Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh | Ranked No.1 in kanpur, Ranked No.1 in Uttar Pradesh, Ranked No.7 in India |
8 | Jamnabai Narsee School | Mumbai, Maharashtra | Ranked No.1 in Mumbai, Ranked No.1 in Maharashta, Ranked No.8 in India |
Bombay Scottish School | Mumbai, Maharashtra | Ranked No.1 in Mumbai, Ranked No.2 in Maharashtra, Ranked No.8 in India | |
9 | Ryan International School, Kharghar | Thane, Maharashtra | Ranked No.2 in Thane, Ranked No.3 in Maharashtra, Ranked No.9 in India |
Hiranandani Foundation School | Mumbai, Maharashtra | Ranked No.2 in Mumbai, Ranked No.3 in Maharashtra, Ranked No.9 in india | |
10 | Jasudben ML School | Mumbai, Maharashtra | Ranked No.3 in Mumbai, Ranked No.4 in Maharashtra, Ranked No.10 in India |
11 | Parle Tilak Vidyalaya | Mumbai, Maharashtra | Ranked No.4 in Mumbai, Ranked No.5 in Maharashtra, Ranked No.11 in India |
Wisdom High International School | Nashik, Maharashtra | Ranked No.1 in Nashik, Ranked No.5 in Maharashtra, Ranked No.11 in India | |
12 | Presidency School – Nandini Layout | Bengaluru, Karnataka | Ranked No.3 in Bengaluru, Ranked No.3 in Karnataka, Ranked No.12 India |
13 | New Horizon Public School | Bengaluru, Karnataka | Ranked No.4 in Bengaluru, Ranked No.4 in Karnataka, Ranked No.13 in India |
14 | BGS World School | Chickballapur, Karnataka | Ranked No.1 in Chickballapur, Ranked No.5 in Karnataka, Ranked No.14 in India |
15 | Maneckji Cooper Education Trust School | Mumbai, Karnataka | Ranked No.5 in Mumbai, Ranked No.6 in Maharashtra, Ranked No.15 India |
16 | Daffodils English School | Bengaluru, Karnataka | Ranked No.5 in Bengaluru, Ranked No.6 in karnataka, Ranked No.16 in India |
17 | Vishwa Vidyapeeth School | Bengaluru, Karnataka | Ranked No.6 in Bengaluru, Ranked No.7 in Karnataka, Ranked No.17 in India |
Seshadripuram Public School | Bengaluru, Karnataka | Ranked No.6 in Bengaluru, Ranked No.7 in Karnataka, Ranked No.17 in India | |
18 | Mount St. Patrick Academy | Pune, Maharashtra | Ranked No.1 in Pune, Ranked No.7 in Maharashtra, Ranked No.18 in India |
Educon International School | Pune, Maharashtra | Ranked No.1 in Pune, Ranked No.7 in Maharashtra, Ranked No.18 in India | |
19 | St. Francis Xavier School | Kolkata, West Bengal | Ranked No.1 in Kolkata, Ranked No.1 in West Bengal, Ranked No.19 in India |
20 | Kerala Samajam Model School | Jamshedpur, Jharkhand | Ranked No.1 in Jamshedpur, Ranked No.1 in Jharkhand, Ranked No.20 in India |