Goa, Oct. 12 -- Over 33 lakh students across the country are enrolled in more than 1 lakh single-teacher schools with Andhra Pradesh recording the highest number of such schools and Uttar Pradesh leading with the most number of student enrolments in them, according to official data.

According to Ministry of Education's statistics, in the academic year 2024-25, there were 1,04,125 schools in India run by a single teacher each, and such schools catered to 33,76,769 students an average of about 34 students per school.

The Right To Education Act, 2009 mandates a pupil-teacher ratio of 30:1 at the primary level and 35:1 at the upper primary level .

The highest number of "single-teacher" schools in the country are in Andhra Pradesh, followed...