Union Education Ministry Releases UDISE+ 2025-26 Report

The Union Education Ministry releases the comprehensive UDISE+ report for the academic year 2025-26. The report presents national data on school infrastructure, enrolment, and teacher-related indicators, using March 31, 2026, as the reference date.

UDISE+ 2025-26 Report (Unified District Information System for Education Plus):

Dimension	Key Details
Official database	UDISE+ comprises the Ministry of Education’s official database that tracks school infrastructure, enrolment, and teacher-related data across the country.
Data source and reference date	The report comprises data voluntarily uploaded by schools with active UDISE+ codes for the 2025-26 academic year, with March 31, 2026, as the reference date.
Gross Enrolment Ratio (secondary level)	The report comprises a secondary-level GER of 71.7% in 2025-26, compared to 68.5% last year.
Zero-enrolment institutions	The report comprises 5,663 institutions with zero student enrolment; the highest is West Bengal (4,133), and other locations listed are Chandigarh, Goa, Delhi, Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep, Puducherry, and Haryana.
Girls’ enrolment share	The report comprises girls’ enrolment at 48.4% in 2025-26, compared to 48.3% a year earlier.
Infrastructure: ramps and handrails	The report comprises ramps and handrails for disability students at 58.2%, compared to 54.9% in 2024-25.
Infrastructure: internet connectivity	The report comprises internet connectivity at 67.4%, compared to 63.5% earlier.
Infrastructure: basic facilities	The report comprises electricity at 95%, toilets for girls at 98.5%, toilets for boys at 97.2%, and access to safe drinking water at 99.5%.
School dropout rates	The report comprises dropout rates declining at preparatory and secondary levels in 2025-26: Classes 3 to 5 at 1.8% (from 2.3%), and Classes 9 and 10 at 7% (from 8.2%).
Teacher workforce	The report comprises the teacher workforce crossing 1.02 crore for the first time in an academic year, with an overall 8.3% increase over three years since 2022-23.
Pupil-teacher ratios (PTR) and benchmark	The report comprises PTR values of 10, 12, 17, and 21 across the foundational, preparatory, middle, and secondary stages, and these stand within the 30:1 benchmark set by NEP 2020.
PTR and school size observations	The report comprises that Chandigarh and Delhi have the highest number of students per school with PTR figures within the norms set by the Right to Education (RTE) Act, while Ladakh, Mizoram, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and Meghalaya have notably low student numbers per school.
Single-teacher schools	The report comprises 1,00,843 schools functioning with only a single teacher; Andhra Pradesh has 16,357, Jharkhand has 9,827, and Punjab has 1,749.