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Over 33 lakh students crossed the state are enrolled successful much than 1 lakh single-teacher schools with Andhra Pradesh signaling the highest fig of specified schools and Uttar Pradesh starring with the astir fig of pupil enrolments successful them, according to authoritative data.
According to the Ministry of Education’s statistics, successful the world twelvemonth 2024-25, determination were 1,04,125 schools successful India tally by a azygous teacher each, and specified schools catered to 33,76,769 students – an mean of astir 34 students per school.
The Right to Education Act, 2009 mandates a pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) of 30:1 astatine the superior level (classes I-V) and 35:1 astatine the precocious superior level (classes VI-VIII).
The highest fig of “single-teacher” schools successful the state are successful Andhra Pradesh, followed by Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Lakshadweep.
However, erstwhile it comes to pupil enrolment successful schools with a azygous teacher, Uttar Pradesh tops the list, followed by Jharkhand, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh.
The fig of single-teacher schools has decreased from 1,18,190 successful 2022–23 to 1,10,971 successful 2023–24, signaling a driblet of astir 6%.
“The authorities is connected a ngo to amended the learning outcomes and entail the champion imaginable utilisation of disposable resources by undertaking schoolhouse mergers and consolidation of schools often called ‘rationalisation of schools’,” a elder authoritative explained.
“Single-teacher schools hinder the teaching learning process and hence efforts are being made to redeploy teachers from schools with zero pupil enrolment to single-teacher schools to guarantee optimal teacher availability,” the authoritative added.
Andhra Pradesh has 12,912 single-teacher schools, Uttar Pradesh 9,508, Jharkhand 9,1720, Maharashtra 8,152, Karnataka 7,349, Lakshadweep 7,217, Madhya Pradesh 7,217, West Bengal 6,482, Rajasthan 6,117, Chhattisgarh 5,973 and Telangana (5,001).
Delhi has 9 single-teacher schools.
There are nary single-teacher schools successful the Union Territories of Puducherry, Ladakh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu and Chandigarh. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands person conscionable 4 single-teacher schools.
In presumption of pupil enrolments successful single-teacher schools, Uttar Pradesh leads with 6,24,327 students taking lessons successful specified schools, followed by Jharkhand with 4,36,480 students, West Bengal 2,35,494, Madhya Pradesh 2,29,095, Karnataka 2,23,142, Andhra Pradesh 1,97,113, and Rajasthan 1,72,071, among others.
When it comes to mean pupil enrolments per school, Chandigarh and Delhi person the highest fig of students per school, astatine 1,222 and 808, respectively.
Ladakh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, and Himachal Pradesh, connected the different hand, person importantly little enrolments per school, astatine 59, 70, 73, and 82, respectively.
“High fig of students per schoolhouse indicates optimum utilisation of schoolhouse infrastructure and schools with debased enrolments are presently being merged to guarantee optimal utilisation,” the authoritative explained.
