Nearly 10,000 Telangana-run schools struggle to fill classrooms

Despite Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s claim of a three-lakh rise in government school enrolments, Education Department data shows nearly 10,000 schools have up to 30 students and 1,897 have none, reflecting a sharp decline in public confidence

Hyderabad: Contrary to the claims of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, who also holds the Education Department portfolio, of a three-lakh surge in government school enrolments, official records paint a starkly different picture.

As per the statistics released by the Education Department, a staggering number of nearly 10,000 government and local body schools recorded up to 30 admissions for the academic year 2025-26. While majority of these schools i.e., 8,762 are under primary level, 172 are high schools.

Even more alarming, 4,325 schools admit