Education World fore survey of Indian day schools features the country’s first Waldorf School.

“Even just being featured on this list would have been a huge success, but being ranked in the top 15 of thousands of Indian day schools is an unexpectedly high achievement for Sloka.” – Nirmala Diaz founder of Sloka

The Sloka Waldorf School in Hyderabad was founded in 1997. Just 14 years later the country’s first school following the curriculum of Steiner Education has been ranked as the 15th most respected schools of India. Sloka School has scored high marks in all twelve educational parameters, which were taken into account by the Education World survey. In the fields of parental involvement (No.5), co-curricular education (6) and competence of faculty (9) the school has even made the Top 10.

To constitute the EW survey tables of nationally and regionally ranked schools, 250 schools short-listed by EducationWorld were assessed by a carefully constituted respondents base comprising parents, principals, teachers and educationists across 12 parameters or attributes. On the reasoning that there is more to education than academic or scholastic excellence, 2,062 respondents across the country were asked to rate schools on 12 parameters — academic reputation, co-curricular education, sports education, faculty competence, individual attention to students, value for money, leadership/management quality, parental involvement, infrastructure provision, quality of alumni/students, integrity/ honesty and transparency in admissions.

Suresh Kuppu and Nirmala Diaz founders of Sloka Waldorf School explain why being ranked as number 15 is such an extraordinary success: “First of all it is a breakthrough for Waldorf Education in India, as we are the first school with a Steiner curriculum to be featured in this league table. Another reason is that we are quite a young school, whilst the school ranked as number one already has a history of over 150 years. And finally we were able to establish a successful school with limited financial means in comparison for example to the number two ranked Mallya Aditi School, which is supported by an Indian billionaire.”

The Friends of Waldorf Education would like to congratulate Sloka Waldorf School to this extraordinary achievement.

• Sloka Website
• Education World Survey