Around 3,00,000 students participated across India in Classmate Spellbee Season 12. In the end only 16 spellers were short listed for the National level.

Devkanto Bhagat of class 6 and Govind Sarda of class 7 of St Michael’s school, Siliguri were also among the top 16 National finalists. They competed with Class 8 & 9 students. Their performance was commendable.