Levelfield School featured in Outlook Business!

The Levelfield School has been featured in Outlook Business' Independence Day special issue, as one of the twenty-four social enterprises in India that are making a difference.

The article says:

"In a path-breaking move in early 1900, literature-Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore introduced students to the benefits of learning in a natural environment in an open-air campus at Shantiniketan’s Visva-bharati University.

Around 100 years later, 35 km from Shantiniketan, a similar experiment is underway in a school at Suri (pronounced Shiuri), a small town 200 km north of Kolkata."

Read the rest of the article here. 

ASSET results: 2011 Winter Round

This year, the results of the ASSET tests for Levelfield students were even better than last year.

All of class III, IV and V students sat for the test. 60% of them were in the top 15 percentile, and 30% of the students were in the top 5 percentile.

The school was among the top-ten schools all over India in terms of its math performance, across all classes. The school was also rated among the top-ten schools all over India in terms of its science performance, for class III and V.

Eye-popping results in Mcmillan IAIS tests!

Levelfield students from class III, IV and V recently took the standardized test conducted by Mcmillan and University of New South Wales (International assessment for Indian schools). This test is taken by over five lakh students in India and other Asian countries.

Levelfield students did even better than how they did in ASSET, another standardized test they took a year back! In class III and IV, ALL the students were in the top 12% nationally. Overall, more than half of our students were in the top 5% (95 percentile), with several of them getting 99 percentile!

Overall, Levelfield student's average marks were a whopping 61% better than the national average. Even the weakest students here got 85-90 percentiles, placing them in the top 10-15% students nationally.

Levelfield story in Rediff.com

The story of the Levelfield School appeared in Rediff.com (business news section) today. The article is long, and explains Levelfield's methodology in some detail. Please click this link to read the full article.

The same article also appeared in the leading management magazine - The smart manager - in the First Person section.

Levelfield School in the news!

Levelfield School was covered by leading Mumbai daily DNA this week. The article says:

Former I-Banker looks to build the IIT/IIM of K12 education

Having studied in IIT Kharagpur and IIM Ahmedabad, Arghya Banerjee was obsessed with top-class education.

But when it came to finding a good school for his daughter, the electrical engineer was at a loss. Most schools didn’t match his expectations.

Read the rest of the article here.

Levelfield School wins the Sankalp Awards 2011!

The Levelfield School is the winner of Sankalp Awards 2011 in the education sector.

Sankalp Awards are given to innovative social enterprises with business excellence and strong social impact. We are proud to win such a prestigious award after only a short period of starting our school.

A short interview of the founder of the Levelfield School will be aired in ET Now on 9th May, 10:30pm.

ASSET test results: 2010 winter round

This year, 19 students from our school participated in the ASSET test conducted by Educational initiatives. According to their data, around 350,000 students all over India took the test. This being a large number of students, we believe it is a good benchmark of a student's standing among his/her peers all over the country.

We are happy to note that three of our students got an outstanding performance certificate, which means they were among the top 1% of the students all over the country. This is almost similar to being a rank-holder in a board exam.

Two more of our students were among the top 5% of the students, and four more were in the top 15%. This shows that around half of the Levelfield School students put in a really strong performance.

A few interesting points:

Most of these students who took the test this year joined our school last year from a vernacular medium background. When they joined, some of them could not even read and understand a sentence in English. For them to take a test like this, and come out in flying colours - is indeed a significant achievement for themselves and for the school.

In addition, we believe that a test like ASSET is still primarily taken by students of better schools in metro cities. So the competition is of higher quality than what would have been if all the students of the country would have taken the test (as in a board exam). So 85 percentile here probably translates into a little higher over a nationwide sample.