Post Date: Post Date – 10:11 PM, Friday – November 4th
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Hyderabad: Telangana government opening new boarding schools, improving facilities in government and local agency schools, and providing quality free education and qualified teachers are bearing fruit, with enrolment in government-run schools rising year by year.
According to the UDISE (Unified Regional Education Information System) report released by the Department of Education for the 2021-22 school year, public school enrollments in the 2021-22 school year increased by more than 400,000 compared to the previous year. In the 2021-22 school year, the state has a total of 33,03,699 pre-K-12 enrollments compared to 28,96,974 and 28,32,859 in 2020-21 and 2019-20, respectively.
The report shows that enrollment in public institutions at all levels from preschool to high school has risen. Pre-primary enrolments in the government sector have almost doubled to 6,175 in the 2021-22 school year, compared to 3,735 in the previous school year.
There were 23,83,481 enrolments in primary schools (grades 1-8) in the 2021-22 school year, compared to 20,30,516 enrolments at the same level in the previous school year. Likewise, for the 2021-22 school year, there will be 5,90,203 middle school (grades 9-10) enrollments, 3,23,840 high school (11-12) enrollments, and 5,89,398 middle school enrollments and high school enrollments The number is 2,73,325 in 2020-21.
Overall, the state has 69,15,241 students enrolled in 43,083 schools in 2021-22, an average of 161 students per school. The state records a student-teacher ratio of 22, with an average teacher per school of 7.
The state’s Gross Enrollment Rate (GER) also rose. The GER for the 2021-22 school year was 110.2 for elementary (grades 1 to 8), 94.1 for the middle school and 64.8 for the high school, compared to 107.9, 92.3 and 61.8 for the 2020-21 school year. GER is the gross enrolment rate for a particular level of schooling, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population of the official age group corresponding to a particular level of schooling in a particular school year.
According to statistics, the dropout rate in the upper primary grades rose by 3.1% in the 2021-22 school year, and was zero in the 2020-21 school year. The number of dropouts at the secondary level decreased slightly from 13.9 in the 2020-21 school year to 13.7 in the 2021-22 school year.
