Citizen Matters lists the criteria to consider in selecting a school in Bangalore. Their list includes the following:
- Commute distance and time
- Academic standards
- School fees
- Students-to-teacher ratio
- Good teachers
- School management
- Corporal punishment
- Parent participation
- When to admit
In another article, Citizen Matters addresses the issue of selecting the right school board for your child if you are in Bangalore and provides a comparison table of the alphabet soup of ICSE, CBSE, IGCSE, IB, SSLC/PUC and the NIOS.
There is also a wiki on schools in Bangalore put together by some folks, listing crowd-sourced information on various schools
