What are the trends in the number of schools in India?
Please refer to the Table below:
Number of Schools (All Schools): All-India
| Year
|
Total Number
of Schools |
Increase/
Decrease
|
%age
Change
|
Total Government/
DoE Schools
|
Increase/ Decrease
|
Total Private Schools
|
Increase/ Decrease
|
| 2017-18 | 15,58,903 | 1094543 | 322201 | ||||
| 2018-19 | 15,51,000 | -7,903 | -0.5 | 1083747 | -10796 | 326228 | 4027 |
| 2019-20 | 15,07,708 | -43,292 | -2.8 | 1032570 | -51177 | 337499 | 11271 |
| 2020-21 | 15,09,136 | 1,428 | 0.09 | 1032149 | -521 | 343314* | 5815 |
| 2021-22 | 14,89,115 | -20,021 | -1.33 | 1022386 | -9663 | 335844 | -7470 |
| 2017-18
to 2021-22 |
-69,788 | -4.48% | -72,157 | -6.59 %
|
13,643 | 4.23%
|
Source: UDISE & UDISE+, different years. *Number of published schools were 3,40,753 schools in 2020-
