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This is a list of schools in India grouped by state/UT. Where a state or city has its own list, it is linked without duplicating the names here. There are more than 1.5 million schools in India, [1] so this list only includes those with Wikipedia articles.
The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (transl. Central Schools Organisation) is a system of central government schools in India governed by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. As of April 2023, it has a total of 1,253 schools in India, and three abroad, in Kathmandu, Moscow and Tehran. It is one of the world's largest chains of schools ...
There are 661 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools in India. [1] These JNVs are governed by eight different regions. These Regional Offices are at Bhopal, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Patna, Pune and Shillong which have jurisdiction over different states and union territories of India. [2]
The first education board to be set up in India was the Uttar Pradesh Board of High School and Intermediate Education in 1921, which was under the jurisdiction of Rajasthan, Central India and Gwalior. In 1929, the government of India set up a joint Board named Board of High School and Intermediate Education.
Private schools have been established since the British Rule in India and St George's School, Chennai is the oldest private school in India. [149] At such schools, the medium of education is often English, but Hindi or the state's official language is also taught as a compulsory subject. [ 150 ]
The organisation started with 20 regimental schools in 1963 and as of December 2021 there are total of 1,247 schools: 1,244 in India and three abroad. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 3 ] A total of 1,437,363 students as of 13 December 2021 [update] [ 4 ] and 48,314 employees were on the rolls as of 20 January 2019 [update] .
Vidya Bharati (short for Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan) is the educational wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It runs one of the largest private network of schools in India, operating 12,000 schools with over 3.2 Million students, as of 2016 [1] [2] and has its registered headquarters in Lucknow with a functional headquarters in Delhi and a sub-office in Kurukshetra.
The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), formerly National Open School is a national level board of education in India, controlled and managed by the Government of India. It was established by the Ministry of Education (erstwhile Ministry of Human Resource Development) of the Government of India in 1989.