Akshara Foundation, in collaboration with a faculty from IIT Gandhinagar with expertise in data analytics and education policy, undertook a research study on small schools and school consolidation. The study presented in this report is aimed at the issue of small schools in India and develops strategies to consolidate the existing schools to bring efficiency, provide vertical linkages, and to ensure adequate number of teachers per school and efficient distribution of infrastructural resources. The study discusses broader issues of school consolidation at the national level, with a special focus on Karnataka state, using secondary data from U-DISE and field studies by Akshara foundation at the local level.
Restructuring Government Schools in Karnataka
