Your October cover story ‘Why boarding schools are becoming popular again’ was interesting and information-packed. It’s true that our cities and towns are becoming highly-polluted gas chambers with children having to brave crowded streets and heavy traffic to commute to school. As the parent of a six-year-old suffering from asthma, I have experienced the dangers of living in a polluted city first-hand and plan to enroll my daughter in a boarding school when she turns 11 years. Thanks for a very encouraging story on boarding schools. Sheila Dias Bangalore I would like to congratulate you and your team for publishing the EW India School Rankings 2018-19 in the September issue. Evidently much hard work and labour have gone into compiling and presenting the league tables of India’s Top 1,000 schools. Wishing you the best for the future. Vebhu Bhatnagar Director, Blue Bird High School Sector-16, Panchkula Parameter rankings query Re the EW India School Rankings 2018-19 published in the September issue, St. Paul’s English School, Bangalore has not been graded and ranked on several parameters. They include: leadership/management quality (our principal Susan Roy is a dynamic leader); teacher welfare and development; competence of faculty/ individual attention to students; special needs education; and co-curricular activities (tennis, cricket, football and several other activities are offered). As no parent or student feedback was taken for the survey, please share the ranking parameters and evaluation method. Shrabanti Sen Presidency Group of Schools Bangalore All schools have been evaluated on 14 parameters of K-12 education excellence. Please read the intro and main co-ed national league table for your school’s score on all 14 parameters. For space constraints only India’s Top 10 day schools (across all sub-categories) rated under the 14 parameters have been ranked in the parameter rankings — Editor Words of appreciation I am filled with sentiments of deep gratitude and appreciation as I write this letter to express my sincere thanks for presenting an excellence award to our school — St. Mary’s ICSE, Mazagaon, Mumbai — at the EducationWorld India School Rankings Awards ceremony in Delhi NCR on September 29. It was a very proud moment for our school and will be treasured for many years in the future. While receiving the award, my mind and heart were filled with mixed emotions of joy, satisfaction, pride and love for our students. This award will certainly enrich and encourage our management, staff, students and parents to work hard towards upgrading our school to higher levels of excellence and brilliance. Please extend my sincere thanks to all those who worked tirelessly to organise this mega event. Fr. Dr. Francis Swamy, S.J. Principal, St. Mary’s ICSE, Mazagaon, Mumbai Gross injustice complaint In spite of being regarded as one of the premier institutions in the country, Delhi Public School, Noida, has not been given its due in the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2018-19 (EW September). We are ranked #8 in the category of co-ed day-cum-boarding schools, despite being a core school of the DPS…
