Teacher Related Indicators & EDI - DISE

Teacher-Related Indicators
Part IV
of the type of school, a large number of schools in the
country do not have female teacher. This is applicable
to Elementary schools (19.90 percent) and integrated
Higher Secondary schools (13.83
percent).
The total number of
teachers presented above is not
expected to provide information
on teachers in an individual type
of school. For this purpose, the
average number of teachers by
school category is analysed. Its
data is presented in Table D-3.
Average Number of Teachers
The average number of teachers in a school
imparting elementary education has shown consistent
improvement over a period of time. Such schools/sections
have had more teachers in 2007-08 than in the previous
year. This also applies to all types of schools. By and large,
this is also true for rural and urban areas, barring
School
Category
“Average number of teachers
in a school imparting
elementary education has
shown consistent improvement
over a period of time. Such
schools/sections have had
more teachers in 2007-08
than in the previous year”
significant difference is noticed in the availability of
teachers in rural (4.0) and urban areas (7.9). Schools in
rural areas have fewer teachers than schools in urban
areas and the difference is
significant. A wide difference is
also seen between schools
managed by government (3.9)
and private management (7.2).
The average number of teachers
in government schools is a little
less than half of the average in
private managed schools. The
average number of teachers by
school category reveals that the
highest number of teachers per school is observed in
integrated Higher Secondary schools (11.5), followed by
Upper Primary attached to Secondary and Higher
Secondary schools (10.2), independent Elementary (7.1),
and Upper Primary (4.4) schools. However, despite
improvement, the lowest percentage is noticed in Primary
schools (3.0 teachers) which is almost as much as in the
previous year (2.9 teachers per school).
Table D5
Average Number of Teachers by School Category: 2004-05 to 2007-08
All Areas Rural Areas Urban Areas
2004 2005 2006 2007 2004 2005 2006 2007 2004 2005 2006 2007
-05 -06 -07 -08 -05 -06 -07 -08 -05 -06 -07 -08
Primary Only 2.7 2.8 2.9 3.0 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.8 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.8
Primary with 6.6 6.7 6.9 7.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.6 8.6 8.4 8.6 8.9
Upper Primary
Primary with 10.9 10.3 10.7 11.5 9.2 8.9 8.8 9.7 13.4 12.5 13.7 14.4
Upper Primary
& Secondary/
Hr. Secondary
Upper Primary 4.0 4.6 5.1 4.4 3.8 4.1 4.5 4.0 5.5 9.1 10.1 7.9
Only
Upper Primary 9.0 9.1 9.4 10.2 8.0 8.0 8.4 9.2 12.1 12.4 12.6 13.2
& Secondary/
Hr. Secondary
All Schools 4.0 4.2 4.4 4.5 3.6 3.8 3.9 4.0 7.3 7.4 7.7 7.9
independent Upper Primary schools which had a slightly
less number of teachers in 2007-08 than in the previous
year. The all-India average of all states reveals that in
2007-08, there were 4.5 teachers (4.4 teachers in 2006-
07) in a school that imparts elementary education. A
It is interesting to note that all the states have
reported an average of three and more teachers in
schools that impart elementary education across the
county, but the same is not true for all types of schools.
On the other hand, none of the major states reported
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