As many as five schools from the City have made it to the all-India level list of top 25 ‘budget private schools’ (BPS), while four schools have been featured under the top special needs schools category.
The schools that have been figured prominently from Bengaluru are: Ashwini Public School (rank 6), New Blossoms Education Society (rank 12), Nandini Public School (rank 18), Sun Rise Public School (rank 19) and Shri Shyla Vidya Samste, Kaderenahally (rank 21). While, the top-ranked school is the Muni International School in Delhi.
In a first of its kind national-level survey carried out across 27 cities, a list was complied to rank the best budget private schools and schools for special needs as part of the Annual Education World India School Rankings 2015. A total of 14 parameters, including academic reputation, community service and competence of faculty, among others were considered to rank schools.
The survey also highlights the findings of the Centre for Civil Society, a Delhi-based think tank, according to which the number of BPS schools charging a tuition ranging from Rs 70 to Rs 150 per month in rural areas and Rs 200 to Rs 600 in urban India, has risen to three lakh, with a staggering aggregate enrolment of 60 million children.
As far as the rankings of schools for children with special needs are concerned, four schools figure in the top rankings - Asha Kiran Special Needs School, Ramamurthy Nagar (rank 5), Academy for Severe Handicaps and Autism, Basaveswaranagar (rank 5), Bubbles Centre for Autism, Bileshivale (rank 10) and finally Bethany Special School, Koramangala (rank 14). Tamana Autism Centre-School of Hope, Delhi was ranked number one.
‘Matter of pride’
Speaking to Deccan Herald, Rita James, principal and founder, Asha Kiran Special Needs School, said: “It is a matter of pride that our school has made it to the list. We are in a way a mini mainstream school in the sense that we teach children from kindergarten to class 12. The only difference is in the method we teach, which is more personal and based on multiple intelligence,” she said.
While a number of prominent schools such as Mallya Aditi International School, Yelahanka, Indus International School, Sarjapur, also figure other categories of the list, various other prominent schools in the City were not featured in the list.
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