India's most admired international schools
In the September 2008 issue of Education World, Woodstock School was ranked as the top international school in India.
Education World, September 2008
In another departure from previous practice, the EducationWorld Schools Survey 2008 acknowledges that international schools - defined as primary/secondaries affiliated with offshore examination boards such as the International Baccalaureate Organisation, Geneva (IBO), Cambridge International Examinations, UK (CIE) or the Middle States Association (USA) - are sui generis, i.e a distinct category and deserve to be ranked separately inter se.
Distinguished by their avant garde curriculums, contemporary IT-enabled pedagogies and capital-intensive infrastructure, they shouldn't be mixed up as they were last year with day and traditional boarding schools. That's probably why even vintage international schools highly admired by the cognoscenti such as Woodstock School, Mussoorie (estb.1854) and Kodaikanal International (estb.1901) didn't figure in the 2007 rankings at all. Wiser for the experience, this year genuinely (rather than self-proclaimed) international schools were classified and ranked separately.
And unsurprisingly these two vintage schools topped the rankings of the 18 generally low-profile international schools, of whom there was sufficient awareness within the sample respondents base for rating and ranking purposes.