The best schools of India: 2015
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2015
CBSE rankings: India
The Times of India, Sep 29 2015
Manash Gohain
15 out of 20 top CBSE schools are in South TN houses 7 of them, Bengaluru has 5
With seven of its schools among India's best 20, Tamil Nadu tops the list of states going by the best overall aggregates in class XII CBSE exams in 2015. The data, exclusively available with TOI, also reveals that Bengaluru houses five schools among the top 20. And it's not that private schools are the only ones coming out with flying colours. Two central government-run Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas also feature in this year's list of top 20.
The overall aggregate for a school was arrived at by taking out the average marks obtained by all the students who took the class XII CBSE exams.
And not just Tamil Nadu or Bengaluru, the entire south has put up a stellar performance. As was reflected in the class XII 2015 results where the top two regions in terms of pass percentage for the second consecutive year were Thiruvananthapuram and Chennai, 15 schools among the top 20 with best aggregates are from the southern states.Apart from Chennai and Bengaluru, two schools from Kerala and one from Andhra Pradesh has made it to the list too.
All the top three schools are from Chennai with DAV Boys Sr Sec School, Mogap pair, leading with an aggregate of 92.3%. In fact, all the four schools from Chennai on the best aggregate list of 20 are DAV schools.
“These are not any kind of ranking but an indicator of how good the teaching process in these schools is,“ said a senior CBSE official. “There schools may have higher number of students scoring 95% and above, but the overall average is an indicator of how the whole batch has performed,“ the official added.
Gujarat, Jharkhand, Haryana and Chandigarh too have one school each on this list. But despite a quarter of CBSE students being from the Delhi region, which includes schools in Delhi and those abroad, there is just one school from here on the list -Sardar Patel Vidyalaya.
Delhi
The Times of India, Sep 29 2015
Sardar Patel school pips others in CBSE ranking Considering the best aggregate in Class XII in 2015, Sardar Patel Vidyalaya is the top CBSE school in the city .With an average aggregate of 89.7%, the school pips Mother's International School at second place with Delhi Public School, Rohini in the third spot. Another highlight among the top schools, however, is that the Government Boys Senior Secondary School for Blind, Kingsway Camp also finds itself in the list. It is in sixth place ahead of schools like Birla Vidya Niketan, Pushp Vihar, The Heritage School, Rohini, Apeejay School, Pitampura and NK Bagrodia Public School, Dwarka. But the difference is as close as 0.1%, with all of them having over 88% average aggregate.
Among these schools, Birla Vidya Niketan has the largest number of kids at 207, followed by DPS, Mother's International, Apeejay and Sardar Patel.
“Congratulations to the students. They worked really hard with teachers and parents have been very supportive. After such a brilliant Class XII results this news is definitely an icing on the cake and a big motivator for the batch preparing to sit for the exam in March 2016,“ said Anuradha Joshi, principal, Sardar Patel Vidyalaya.
Students from the school not only performed well in academics, but also brought laurels in other segments. Tejaswin Shankar won the gold in the high jump event at Commonwealth Youth Games in China earlier this month, while the choir group of the school was invited to perform at PM Narendra Modi's address on Teachers' Day . Another student, Salil Malhotra, who completed his Class XII this year, represented Delhi in Under-16 cricket.
