The inaugural Educationworld grand jury awards 2016 were instituted in September to felicitate low-profile and/or emerging schools which have introduced best 21st-century practices in primary-secondary education. To shortlist and select low-profile and/or newly-promoted progressive schools countrywide, we invited nominations from educationists, individuals and schools themselves supported by evidence of best practices in ten categories such as Green Schools, STEM Education Excellence, New Technologies Usage, Campus Architecture and Design and Communications Excellence, among others.

Duly evidence-supported nominations were received for 500 schools countrywide. To assess the evidence and rank nominated schools in each category, a Grand Jury comprising eminent educationists including Rohit Mohindra (Raj Mohindra Consultants, Mumbai), Jawahar Surisetti (Delhi-based education consultant and advisor), Divya Arora (American Field Services, Delhi), Dr. Niren Suchanti (Pressman Advertising Ltd, Mumbai), Dr. Shayama Chona (Tamanna, School of Hope, Delhi) and the Hyderabad-based Jaideep Gupta (Univariety Pvt. Ltd) was constituted. The Grand Jury duly assessed the nominations and supportive evidence and ranked the Top 10 schools in each category. Of them 3 were conferred awards at the EW India School Rankings Awards 2016 function on September 23-24. The Top 10 EW Grand Jury Rankings 2016 are presented below.