India’s school system has long prided itself on scale. But scale, as the latest Class 10 results of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) suggest, is increasingly accompanied by stratification. Over 93.7 percent of students cleared the exams; more than 55,000 scored above 95 percent. Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti posted near-perfect pass rates. Private schools, too, performed robustly. At the bottom sat government-aided schools, with a p