To compile the 2025-26 league tables of all vintage legacy day schools — co-ed, boys, girls and day-cum-boarding — 9,500 respondents comprising parents of school going students, faculty, educators & counsellors were persuaded to rate them on 15 parameters or attributes. On the reasoning that there is more to education than academic or scholastic excellence (on which conventional league tables published abroad are based), the respondents were asked to rate schools on 15 parameters of school education excellence including academic reputation, curriculum and pedagogy, co-curricular education, parental involvement, faculty competence, leadership, infrastructure, value for money, teacher welfare, quality of alumni etc.

For the parmeters rankings of India’s Top 10 vintage legacy day schools, under the broad category of vintage legacy day schools, schools in each sub-category (co-ed, day-cum-boarding, boys and girls) compete with each other.