Thiruvananthapuram: Many schools from the state featured in the top ten ranks in various sections as per the Education Word India school rankings for the year 2019-20. Leading survey agency C fore conducted the survey.
The schools topped in different categories and their rankings are as follows:
Day-cum-boarding:
Pallikoodam School, Kottayam - No. 9.
International day schools:
Sadhbhavana World School, Kozhikode - No. 10.
Govt day schools:
GVHSS for Girls, Nadakkavu, Kozhikode - No. 2.
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram - No. 4
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Puranattukara, Trissur- No. 9.
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Keltron Nagar, Kannur - No. 10.
Govt boarding schools:
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Chennithala, Alappuzha, - No. 3 .Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV), Chendayad, Kannur, - No. 5.
JNV, Neriamangalam, Ernakulam- No. 7.
The survey rates and ranks the country's top 1,000 schools in ten categories.
Private budget, special needs and government schools are also listed separately.
The 14 parameters of education excellence on which the schools were ranked are academic reputation, competence of faculty (double weightage), individual attention to students, leadership/ management quality, life skills education and conflict management, co-curricular education, safety and hygiene, community service, internationalism, parental involvement, teacher welfare and development, value for money, sports education and infrastructure provision.
"For this year's perceptual survey, 122 field researchers interviewed 4,340 educationists/principals/teachers and 7,597 fees-paying parents, and class X to XII school students in 28 cities. Apart from metros, we also interviewed sample respondents in Hyderabad, Pune, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow, Kochi, Jammu, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Gurgaon and Noida," said Premchand Palety, chief executive of C fore, in a statement explaining its ratings and ranking methodology.
