We appreciate your initiative to publish objective and unbiased school rankings together with schools™ actual class XII exam averages (EW September). However, the CBSE class XII five-subjects average of Bal Bharati Public School, Dwarka (84.83 percent) has not been published in the rankings league table. Please refer to our email dated August 24 wherein we communicated the school™s average score. The omission on your part has damaged the reputation of our school. We hope such omissions will be avoided in future to restore our faith in the credentials of your prestigious magazine. Suruchi Gandhi Principal, Bal Bharati Public School, Dwarka, New Delhi We apologise for the omission ” Editor Misclassification complaint I write to you in connection with the EW India School Rankings 2015 (EW September). Jayshree Periwal International School (JPIS) has been ranked #2 in Rajasthan under the co-ed day schools category. However, in the questionnaire submitted to you, we have emphasised that JPIS is an international day-cum-boarding school offering the IGCSE (UK) and IB diploma (Geneva) programmes. I will appreciate your correcting this error and classifying us as an international school. Aakriti Periwal Director, Jayshree Periwal International School, Jaipur You had not ticked the appropriate box for classification of schools in the EWISR 2015 questionnaire on our website. Nevertheless we regret the misclassification ” Editor All the same Re the EW India School Rankings 2015 (EW September), we would like to bring to your notice that our school™s name is Presidency School, Bangalore South. In the co-ed day schools league table, there™s mention of Presidency School, Bilekahalli, Bangalore South, and Presidency School, Bannerghatta. Please note all of them are one school. Kindly delete both other Presidency Schools in your master list and retain only Presidency School, Bangalore South in your forthcoming surveys. J. Bhuvaneswari Presidency School, Bangalore South Full transparency request The EW India School Rankings 2015 (EW September) is an excellent effort by your organisation to guide parents in choosing appropriate schools for their children. However, I feel a 360 degree feedback of schools is still missing. For instance, one of the schools top-ranked in your survey still practices corporal punishment, employs incompetent teachers who don™t complete the syllabus on time, burdens children with excess homework, class tests and projects, and forces them to carry school bags weighing 8-10 kg. You need to highlight all these facts about schools ranked in your annual survey. Please consider my suggestions with the objective of improving and upgrading schools in the interest of children. Mona Bhatia on email Academic rankings query I read with interest the EW India Academic Rankings 2015 published in the July and August editions. In the July issue, Salwan Public School is ranked #117 among India™s Top 100 CBSE schools whereas in the August edition, its name doesn™t figure, even though you have clearly stated that CBSE schools are ranked according to five-subjects average. If schools have been ranked on the basis of 90 percent-plus performers, our institution is on a par with other schools. I…
