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What share of secondary school students drop out?

7.0%
2025-26▼ 1.2 vs 2024-25

MoE · released 7 Jul 2026

What share of secondary school students drop out?
PeriodValue (%)
2025-267.0
2024-258.2
2023-2410.9
2022-2313.8

Use in your answer

The dropout rate at the secondary stage (classes 9–12) was 7.0% in 2025-26, compared with 8.2% in 2024-25 (UDISE+). Source: Ministry of Education, UDISE+ 2025-26 (NEP structure).

Cite as: Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2025-26 (Ministry of Education (UDISE+))

What this shows

  • The secondary dropout rate (classes 9–12) fell to 7.0% in 2025-26, from 8.2% in 2024-25 and 13.8% in 2022-23.
  • More boys drop out than girls: 8.3% against 5.7% in 2025-26.
  • On the older classes 9–10 definition (the 'existing structure' report) the rate was 9.5% in 2025-26 and 11.5% in 2024-25; say which definition you are quoting.

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Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2025-26 (Ministry of Education (UDISE+))

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Source and method

Source
Ministry of Education, UDISE+ 2025-26 (NEP structure)
Table
UDISE+ 2025-26 press release table (Dropout Rate, Secondary); each year checked against its UDISE+ NEP-structure report, Table 6.11, India row
Released
7 Jul 2026
Retrieved
18 Oct 2026
Next due
UDISE+ 2026-27, date not announced
Processing
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Licence
GODL-India
What exactly is measured

Dropout rate at the secondary stage (classes 9 to 12, the NEP 2020 school structure), boys and girls together, from UDISE+. UDISE+ has collected student-wise data since 2022-23; the ministry says figures from 2022-23 on are comparable with each other but not with reports up to 2021-22, so earlier years are not shown.

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Secondary dropout by state

Dropout rate at the secondary stage (classes 9 to 12, NEP structure), boys and girls together, UDISE+ 2025-26. State figures can swing sharply between years (West Bengal 20.3% in 2024-25, 1.5% in 2025-26), so compare states within a year. Source: Ministry of Education, UDISE+ 2025-26 report (NEP structure), 2025-26.

Ranked

Ranked lowest first · 2025-26 · India 7.0%

  1. 1West Bengal1.5
  2. 2Telangana1.7
  3. 3Lakshadweep2.3
  4. 4Puducherry2.5
  5. 5Kerala2.9
  6. 6Jharkhand3.0
  7. 7Chandigarh3.3
  8. 8Andaman & Nicobar Islands3.7
  9. 9Haryana4.2
  10. 10Himachal Pradesh4.8
  11. 11Manipur4.8
  12. 12Punjab4.8
  13. 13Tamil Nadu4.8
  14. 14Meghalaya5.0
  15. 15Uttarakhand5.3
  16. 16Goa5.7
  17. 17Maharashtra6.2
  18. 18Uttar Pradesh6.4
  19. 19Bihar6.8
  20. 20Delhi7.3
  21. 21Rajasthan7.5
  22. 22Andhra Pradesh7.8
  23. 23Mizoram7.8
  24. 24Tripura9.0
  25. 25Odisha10.0
  26. 26Arunachal Pradesh10.7
  27. 27Sikkim10.7
  28. 28Assam11.0
  29. 29Madhya Pradesh11.0
  30. 30Nagaland11.0
  31. 31Jammu & Kashmir11.3
  32. 32Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu11.5
  33. 33Gujarat12.5
  34. 34Chhattisgarh13.8
  35. 35Karnataka14.3
  36. 36Ladakh14.8

How are the states spread?

10 of 36 states fall between 2.5% and 5.0%. Each column counts the states in one band of secondary dropout; the dashed line is the all-India figure.

Hover a column for the states in it. Bands are equal widths of the state figures, 2025-26.

History: every published version

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  1. 4 periods, latest 2025-26: 7.0% · first snapshotArchived source2e7e914e7ad1
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  • 7.0%2025-26, UDISE+ report

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