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UDISE+: India's School Education Database
UDISE+, the Unified District Information System for Education Plus, is the national school database the Department of School Education & Literacy has run since 2018-19. Its 2025-26 report, summarised by PIB in August 2026, counts 24.72 crore students and 1.03 crore teachers in 14.67 lakh schools, at an overall pupil-teacher ratio of 24:1.
Last updated 2 November 20264 min read
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Gathers the UDISE+ 2025-26 school numbers in one place: size, pupil-teacher ratios, GER, dropout, inclusion and infrastructure, which earlier sat on the RTE card.
- UDISE+
- pupil-teacher ratio
- gross enrolment ratio
- dropout rate
- DoSE&L
- school education data
- single-teacher schools
- NEP 2020
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