St. John's High School has been ranked number one in all boys’ category schools in the country in the Annual Education World India School Rankings 2020-21 announced recently.

Several schools from Chandigarh have made it to the list of top ten in the 14th Annual Education World India School Rankings 2020-21. The survey was conducted by C-Fore and the league tables of India’s top co-ed day, day-cum-boarding, all boys’ and all girls’ schools, government day and boarding schools and special needs schools were released.

In the category of all girls’ day schools, Carmel Convent School is ranked at second position while Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School is ranked seventh in the country.

In the government day school category, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Manimajra is ranked sixth while Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 16 is ranked eighth in the country.

In the category of day-cum-boarding schools,  Yadavindra Public School, Mohali is ranked at number eight.

The 14 parameters of education excellence on which the schools were ranked included academic reputation, competence of faculty, individual attention to students,  leadership or management quality, co-curricular education, safety and hygiene, community service, parental involvement, infrastructure provision among other factors, said Dilip Thakore, Founder-editor of EducationWorld.

He said that league tables of legacy Boarding schools (co-ed, all boys, exclusively girls), new genre international schools (day, day-cum-boarding and wholly residential) and budget private schools will be released in December.