What Our Grade 10 Results Truly Reflect
Every year, CBSE board results arrive with the same rhythm. Toppers, percentages, rankings. Schools put out press releases. Parents scan for the highest score. The conversation moves fast and stays at the surface.
But what if a school’s results said something more interesting than who came first?
What if the number worth leading with wasn’t the highest score in the class, but how many students across the whole cohort actually made it?
That’s the question that comes up when you look at CHIREC’s Grade 10 Class of 2026.
The number worth paying attention to
Nearly 92% of CHIREC’s Grade 10 cohort scored above 75% aggregate. More than half of the class crossed 90%. And the pass rate was 100%.
It was not only one student or a selected group with exceptional achievements, but it is the cohort that made the school wholesomely proud.
Individual brilliance deserves recognition. It always will. But when strong outcomes extend across an entire class, they usually point to something deeper within the learning environment itself.
As Principal Ms. Katyayini reflects, “what stands out most is not just the achievement at the top, but the collective progress across the class.”
“Deeper understanding of concepts” is worth pausing on. India’s National Education Policy 2020 has been direct about shifting away from rote recall toward conceptual fluency. A result like this suggests that shift is not only bound to policy documents but is actually happening in classrooms.
The names who led the cohort
Before anything else: congratulations to the students who led the class.
Ellala Arya Nandan topped the cohort with 98.6%, followed by Harshdeep Singh at 98.4%. Shriya Jamuar and Navya Guruju shared third place at 98% each.
These are exceptional scores, and they deserve to be celebrated.
But what gives this year’s results their larger significance is that the story does not begin and end with the toppers list.
Why the AI scores matter
Artificial Intelligence is an additional subject in CBSE, a sixth option students pick alongside their core five. Other schools offer it, too. So, the subject itself isn’t the story.
The story is that 56 students scored 100 in it.
Most students who take an additional subject play it safe and often treat it as buffer marks insurance. These students clearly didn’t approach it that way.
The Principal’s read on it:
“The achievement in Artificial Intelligence tells us that students are developing analytical thinking, problem-solving, and digital literacy — competencies that matter beyond examinations.”
Across the class, 78 students scored 100 in their respective subjects, English, French, Social Science and AI. Although the context includes different subjects, the standard remained the same. That kind of spread doesn’t happen when only a few students are pulling the weight.
What creates outcomes like these
When Director Mr. Ramesh Mudgal speaks about CHIREC’s approach, he returns to one phrase repeatedly: culture of care.
Not care in the superficial sense of comfort alone, but an environment where students feel supported while also being challenged to push beyond their own expectations.
That balance is harder to build than it sounds.
It requires structured academic planning, regular teacher-student engagement, ongoing communication with families and the kind of trust that allows students to ask questions freely without fear of judgment.
As the Director explains, strong outcomes emerge when teachers, students and families work in unison.
That’s the difference between a value on paper and a practice in the building.
The stories behind the scores
Behind every result sits a different journey.
Some students improve quietly over time. Some overcome anxiety around assessments. Some begin the year unsure of what they are capable of and end it having exceeded their own expectations.
Our Principal describes these as stories of perseverance, discipline and “quiet growth.”
It’s an important phrase.
Schools often celebrate the loudest successes. But purposeful education also lies in recognising the students whose confidence was built gradually, whose progress may not always appear dramatic from the outside, but is deeply significant, nonetheless.
A number that rarely makes the announcement
CHIREC’s Children with Special Needs (CWSN) candidates achieved a 70.7% average aggregate this year.
Inclusive education, when it actually works, doesn’t lower the bar. It widens the scaffold around the bar. Research published in peer-reviewed journals consistently shows that well-implemented inclusion benefits all learners, when schools are genuinely committed to personalised support.
A 70.7% average for CWSN students at a mainstream CBSE school is not incidental. It comes from trained educators, differentiated planning, consistent family engagement and a student care philosophy that is embedded in how the school runs.
This is probably the number most worth noting in this entire result. And it almost never gets the headline.
What this moment belongs to
This moment belongs to all of us.
A 100% pass rate, 92% of students above 75% average, more than half the class crossing 90%, 56 perfect AI scores and CWSN students averaging above 70% – that kind of result did not come from any single classroom or any single factor. It came from consistent effort across years, from a school that holds challenge and care together without letting go of either and from families who showed up as strong partners in the process.
To every student in the Class of 2026: well done. Not just for the score on the paper, but for what it took to get there.
