Schools in India, by state
India has 14,71,473 schools (UDISE+ 2024-25): 10,13,322 government, 79,349 government-aided, 3,39,583 private unaided and 39,219 others. Pick a state to see its districts, then a district or block to see each school's official record.
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States and union territories
| State / UT | Schools | Government | Private unaided |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 408 | 335 | 71 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 61,317 | 44,886 | 15,473 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 3,229 | 2,558 | 571 |
| Assam | 55,283 | 44,741 | 6,480 |
| Bihar | 94,339 | 76,320 | 11,274 |
| Chandigarh | 207 | 118 | 82 |
| Chhattisgarh | 56,802 | 48,827 | 7,382 |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu | 433 | 361 | 63 |
| Delhi | 5,556 | 2,681 | 2,637 |
| Goa | 1,479 | 780 | 141 |
| Gujarat | 53,355 | 34,638 | 13,190 |
| Haryana | 23,494 | 14,338 | 8,499 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 17,330 | 14,725 | 2,603 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 24,192 | 18,785 | 5,359 |
| Jharkhand | 44,376 | 35,788 | 1,707 |
| Karnataka | 74,859 | 48,844 | 19,105 |
| Kerala | 15,757 | 4,808 | 3,018 |
| Ladakh | 961 | 812 | 111 |
| Lakshadweep | 36 | 36 | 0 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,22,120 | 92,250 | 28,212 |
| Maharashtra | 1,08,250 | 64,884 | 18,746 |
| Manipur | 4,666 | 2,952 | 1,030 |
| Meghalaya | 14,587 | 7,789 | 2,135 |
| Mizoram | 3,974 | 2,617 | 1,068 |
| Nagaland | 2,750 | 1,936 | 814 |
| Odisha | 61,565 | 48,625 | 6,107 |
| Puducherry | 763 | 419 | 311 |
| Punjab | 27,281 | 19,243 | 7,589 |
| Rajasthan | 1,06,302 | 70,155 | 33,548 |
| Sikkim | 1,245 | 857 | 372 |
| Tamil Nadu | 57,935 | 37,626 | 11,890 |
| Telangana | 43,154 | 30,057 | 12,474 |
| Tripura | 4,943 | 4,187 | 485 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,62,358 | 1,37,172 | 1,04,508 |
| Uttarakhand | 22,452 | 16,018 | 5,352 |
| West Bengal | 93,715 | 82,154 | 7,176 |
Counts: UDISE+ 2024-25 booklet, Ministry of Education (Tables 3.3-3.7), booklet PDF, read 20 Oct 2026. The school-by-school lists come from an older named-school file (see each list's data year), so list totals differ from these counts.
The school-by-school lists hold 13,71,979 schools, 2,49,752 of them with a pre-primary section. UDISE data year: about 2019-20 (Shishya's estimate; the publisher does not state the year). Source: India Data Portal (Bharti Institute, ISB) and UDISE+, Ministry of Education. ODC-BY.