<span style="color: #222222;">The Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) at primary, upper primary and higher secondary levels of school education has improved in 2021-22 as compared to last year.<br />''<br />''Ministry of Education has said, GER in higher secondary made significant improvement from 53.8 percent to 57.6 percent in 2021-22. This was disclosed in a report on school education of India, released by the Ministry.<br />''<br />''In 2021-22, total number of students enrolled in school education from primary to higher secondary stood at 25.57 crore as compared to 25.38 crore enrolment in the previous year. It registered an increase of 19.36 lakh enrolments.<br />''<br />''The enrolment of Children with Special Needs showed an improvement of 3.45 percent.<br />''<br />''The Ministry also said, over 95 lakh teachers are engaged in school education during 2021-22 out of which more than 51 percent are female teachers. It said, in 2021-22, the Pupil Teacher Ratio stood at 26 for primary, 19 for upper primary, 18 for secondary and 27 for higher secondary, showing an improvement since 2018-19.<br />''<br />''In 2021-22, over 12.29 crore girls enrolled in primary to higher secondary showing an increase of 8.19 lakh as compared to previous year.<br />''<br />''The report also said, the total number of schools in 2021-22 stood at 14.89 lakhs as compared to 15.09 lakhs in 2020-21.<br />''<br />''The decline in total schools is mainly due to closure of private and other management schools and clustering of schools by various States.</span><br />