Courtesy, a survey conducted by EducationWorld in association with C fore, to rate India's most respected Day, Boarding and International Schools of 2011. A school from Mussoorie received the distinction of being India’s most respected international school: The school is the Woodstock School, Mussoorie.

The survey winners in each category are as under:

India’s most respected Day school -- The Shri Ram School, Delhi

India’s most respected Boarding school -- Rishi Valley School, Chittoor

India’s most respected International school – Woodstock School, Mussoorie.

How the survey was conducted:

The survey conducted by C Fore (Centre for forecasting and research), a Delhi-based opinion polling and market research agency, surveyed a mix of 2,044 fees-paying parents, principals, teachers and educationists in 16 cities across India, asking them to rate 404 of India's most well-known schools on 14 parameters including academic reputation, quality of co-curricular and sports education, infrastructure, leadership/management, quality of alumni and faculty competence, disabled friendliness, teacher welfare and development among other attributes. The perception based scores awarded by the respondents under each parameter were aggregated to arrive at a total score for 321 day schools, 50 legacy/traditional boarding schools and 33 new genre international schools.
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