School is the second home of the young minds where they spent few hours daily with their fellow mates and learn under the guidance of a teacher. It’s every parent’s dream that their children have access to the best quality education for their personal growth and professional wealth. Only a good school can provide quality education to shape the minds of children and improve their skills and expertise for a bright future.

A question often arises in people’s minds that what makes a good school? Following are the characteristics that high-performing schools have:

A quality plan and policy: A good school has a clear and shared goal or vision which makes the performance of everyone within the school better to achieve the end goal and different from other poorly-performed schools. It promotes the growth of every student by using every possible opportunity, gift, advantage, and resource which cannot be seen by lower-performing schools. Its work can substantially and visibly improve the society in which the school lies. Only a good school can adapt to changes in the educational sector.

 High expectations and standards for every student: A good school will always set its standards of teaching and expect the great performance of the students by believing in their competence. The students are encouraged to work at or slightly above the instructions given by teachers.

 Reliable support staff and well-organized service providers: A good school is manned with supporting staff like doctors, guidance counselors, and psychologists so that the student needs can be addressed within the school premises on time. Moreover, a good school will have state-of-the-art supplies such as sports equipment, playground swings, library books, laboratory equipment, computers, and others as they are connected to the best service providers.

 A safe learning environment for students: An effective school focuses on better learning of every child by offering a healthy and respectful school environment for teacher and student interaction. It does not tolerate negative behaviors in schools such as harassment and bullying. The school makes clear the strict disciplinary actions that shall be taken against a child for breaking school rules. Misbehavior of children is prevented by making the child participate in community service or social work for some time.

 Supportive administrators and quality teachers: The students follow what the teacher guides or instructs them. A good school will have fair-minded, passionate, honest, well-mannered, inspirer, skilled, and supportive mentors who will have a strong positive impact on the student’s attitude and personality. A quality teacher will always take out time to update their knowledge, improve their skills, and find ways to make the students motivated and engaged while teaching. Similarly, the administrators of a good school will be highly supportive and professional to the requirements of academic staff.

 Clean and well-organized school premises that are conducive to learning: A good school will maintain hygiene and have a comfortable setting for students to be able to develop their skills and grasp knowledge. Cambridge School is one of the top schools in Greater Noida and is known for its green, safe, spacious, and well-organized infrastructure to ensure effective space for proper child learning and growth.

 Frequent monitoring of the teaching and learning process: A good school will closely look into the progress of every student and ensure that their needs are met by making required adjustments. Students who require extra help receive it only at effective schools. Even the teacher performance is monitored regularly by the Principal and the executive school staff by taking feedback from the students.

 High levels of communication and collaboration: A good school always has a platform wherein everyone will work with a teamwork mentality and good communication skills to solve any problems related to teaching or learning. The overall school performance may reach great heights when teamwork and communication measures are seriously followed within the school and also as a part of a community. The best-performing school holds frequent teacher and parent meetings to improve the communication between them so that they both can work together for achieving the optimal results for the child