School education: Haryana
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Poor performance
2025: At 18 schools, no student passed 12th boards
May 17, 2025: The Times of India
Gurgaon : After the Class 12 board exam results were declared earlier this week, 18 govt schools in Haryana have come under scrutiny. No student passed from any of these schools, reports Anjali Singh .
Of these, six are in Nuh, four in Faridabad, and one each in Gurgaon, Hisar, Jhajjar, Karnal, Palwal, Rohtak, Sonipat and Yamunanagar.
The zero-pass record isn’t the only concern. These schools are among 100 govt institutions that performed poorly in the boards, overshadowing the overall pass percentage of 85.7. In 82 schools across Haryana’s 22 districts, the pass percentage was below 35, prompting officials to refer them to the education directorate and the ministry of education for corrective measures.
Haryana boards: 62 of 100 worst-performing schools are from Nuh
Nuh has the highest concentration of underperforming schools, accounting for 62 of the 100 lowest-performing institutions. Faridabad followed with 12 schools in the bottom 100. There were 59 students who appeared for the Class 12 boards from these 18 schools. Of them, Hindu Girls Senior Secondary School in Yamunanagar had the highest number of candidates at 23. There were several schools that had one candidate appearing for the Plus 2 boards.
Principal Dheer Singh Nagar of Nambardar Public School in Jasana, Faridabad, confirmed no student had passed the Class 12 boards. “It’s partly due to issues with board exam eligibility. Around 8-10 students received permission to sit for the exams late, or not at all. Several students, even those initially eligible, were not attending classes,” he added. Rajneesh Bhardwaj, principal of Bharat Bharti Public School in Saran (Faridabad), said only two students appeared for the boards, but could not clear it. Govt Senior Secondary School in Otha (Nuh) also registered a zero pass score. Its principal identified teacher shortages as the primary reason for this dismal performance. “Our students faced difficulty with English mostly. The PGT English post has been vacant for nearly three years,” he said. The principal noted that none of the 13 students who appeared passed, and six received a compartmental in English. “Clearing that would have boosted the school’s pass rate to around 40%. Vacant posts have severely harmed students’ chances. There is also a need for greater parental awareness. Such issues are regularly reported through official channels, including the system’s management information portal, but to no avail,” he added.
Teachers agreed about these challenges. They observed that frequent teacher vacancies, especially in critical subjects like English, hindered an effective instruction process. They also claimed that many students did not attend classes regularly, which compounded difficulties. “Teachers are being assigned extensive non-teaching duties, such as booth level work and more. They are so overburdened with non-academic tasks whose mental strain is immense. This often results in teachers skipping classes and students missing out on instruction,” a teacher said.
Status
2024
Sukhbir Siwach, Jan 28, 2025: The Indian Express
As per the Annual Status of Education Report, 53.9 per cent of Class 5 students in Haryana government schools could read a Class 2-level text in 2024.
Students aged 6 to 14 in Haryana’s government schools have had higher learning gains than their counterparts in private schools in the last two years, the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) released by the Pratham Foundation on Tuesday revealed.
According to the report, Haryana has witnessed major improvements in basic reading and arithmetic in all grades, especially in early grades in the last two years. As many as 53.9 per cent of children enrolled in Class 5 in Haryana government schools could at least read a Class 2-level text in 2024. In 2022, this was 46.8 per cent – an improvement of 7.1 percentage points. For students in Haryana private schools, there was an improvement of 1.1 percentage points, from 71.8 per cent in 2022 to 72.9 per cent in 2024.
According to the report, in 2024, 29.4 per cent of Class 5 students in Haryana government schools were able to at least read a Class 2-level text and solve a three-digit by one-digit division problem. This was 27.6 per cent in 2022 — an improvement of 1.8 percentage points, as per the report. Students in private schools in the same class have witnessed a decline in the learning level by 3.1 percentage points under this category – from 60 per cent in 2022 to 56.9 per cent in 2024.
However, it is clear from the report that the learning standard of private school students is much higher than their counterparts in government schools.
The foundation surveyed 23,725 students in 626 villages of Haryana’s 21 districts.
The ASER report found that at 98.8 per cent, there was very high overall enrolment in schools in the 6-14 age group, indicating nearly universal enrolment. Enrolment in early childhood (3-4 years) education programmes or pre-school was also found to be high – over 80 per cent. The number of underage (under 5 years of age) children enrolled in Class 1 has declined. In 2024, 24.2 per cent of Class I students were found to be underage, as per the report.
According to the report, the percentage of children in the 15-16 age group who are still out of school is less than five, with a 1.3% gender gap in enrolment. Access to smartphones is high for the 15-16 age group with nearly 90 per cent able to do basic digital tasks, it added.
The report also said that the basic school facilities like mid-day meals, usable toilets, electricity, and libraries have improved during the past two years. For example, the percentage of usable toilets for boys increased from 71.4 per cent in 2022 to 78.7 per cent in 2024.
Schools approached by the foundation during the survey informed that they were receiving directives, training, and materials or funds related to strengthening foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) for early grades in primary school.
