One in six government primary schools in Telangana runs with only one classroom: UDISE report
Nearly one in six government primary schools in the State functions with only one classroom, forcing multiple grades to study together, according to the UDISE+ Report 2025, which highlights severe infrastructure shortages, teacher deficits and low enrolment in thousands of institutions.
Hyderabad: Primary schools with Classes I to V need to have a separate classroom for each grade. Yet, nearly one in six such schools are operating with only one classroom, forcing students from primary grades to share the same room for studying. This is the stark reality in 16 percent of the government and local body primary schools functioning in the State.
The latest Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) plus report 2025 has painted a grim picture of the infrastructure in the government and local body schools across the State.
Students in 2,554 out of 15,919 primary schools have been cramped into a single room as these institutions are operating with a single classroom for five classes. Earlier, the State had single-teacher schools, but this report now revealed the existence of a large number of single-classroom schools as well.
Primary schools are not alone as the same situation is prevailing in the upper primary institutions. While there are 3,089 government-run upper primary schools, 21 have only one room to teach all classes.
What is more alarming is that six out of 4,676 high schools, which either have Classes I to X, or VI to X, have only one classroom to teach all grades. Overall, 2,582 out of 24,582 government schools are running their operations from a single room.
Further, nearly 35 percent of the primary schools have two classrooms, while they are supposed to have five rooms, with one each per class. Similarly, 120 upper primary and 36 high schools operate in two rooms. In total, 5,697 institutions have two classrooms. Only 5,528 schools have more than five classrooms.
Overall, 46 percent of government schools in the State run with only three to five classrooms. All of these were established after the Right to Education Act came into force.
As for teaching staff, nearly 36 percent of primary schools have only one or no teacher, and around 89 percent have fewer than the required five teachers, resulting in widespread multi-grade teaching.
Furthermore, 1,920 with 1,846 primary, 42 upper primary and 32 high schools have no students on their rolls during the academic year 2025-26. In addition, 9,737 schools recorded enrolment between 1 and 30.