Educationworld CISCE & CBSE schools academic rankings 2016

These league tables rank India’s Top 100 CISCE & CBSE schools on the basis of highest average and median scores in the recently concluded board exams

For several decades, the Delhi-based Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) — India’s premier school-leaving (classes X and XII) examination boards — have illogically and irrationally refused to make institutional performance data public. Therefore EducationWorld has been driven to obtain this information which is valuable to parents and students, through other means. 

In this undertaking, we are fortunate to have received the cooperation of Prashant Bhattacharji, a Hyderabad-based data analyst and promoter of the education website www.thelearningpoint.net. For the past several years, Bhattacharji has extracted and analysed publicly accessible information from the websites of schools and exam boards, to compile league tables. 

The EducationWorld School Academic Rankings 2016 rank the country’s Top 100 schools affiliated with the pan-India CISCE and CBSE boards according to their average scores in school-leaving exams. CISCE schools are ranked inter se according to their average score in the class X (ICSE) and class XII (ISC) exams. CBSE-affiliated schools are ranked inter se on the basis of their average score in the class XII exam, since the board’s class X exam is optional for schools and students. Moreover, the CBSE rankings are based on the scores of 7,100 affiliated schools (out of a total of 9,000). The exam scores of the remainder were inaccessible. 

This year, we have added a new column — median score, i.e, the average score of the mid-point student of each school. If an even number of students wrote the exams the median is calculated taking the mean (average) of two mid-ranked students. 

“Globally, the median is a widely used metric while reporting test scores. In most cases, the average is a relatively misleading reflection of class performance, because the scores of bottom performers drag down the average. Also in a departure from past practice when schools were ranked on their English plus best three subjects scores in class XII exams, this year all schools are ranked according to their scores in five subjects to facilitate institutional performance comparison regardless of exam board affiliation. League tables fully disclosing board exam scores promote inter-school competition, give teachers due recognition if their students perform well, and enable parents to choose the best schools for their children,” says Bhattacharji, an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur.

NB: There may be marginal variations between the actual score and tabulated data for reasons explained on www.the learningpoint.net. In case of major discrepancies email updates@thelearningpoint.net