Education Headline indicator
Dropout rate (Secondary)
Share of Grades 9-10 students who left school during the year without completing the level. Lower is better. Secondary is where Indian dropouts spike.
Tamil Nadu, latest
8.5%
2024-25
Change
-17.5%
2022-23 → 2024-25
Rank vs compared states
#2 of 5
TN vs MH, KA, GJ, UP · lower is better
Tamil Nadu's Secondary dropout is 8.5% (2024-25), down +17.5% since 2022-23. It ranks #2 of 5 compared states (lower is better).
Tamil Nadu's Secondary dropout fell from 10.3% (2022-23) to 8.5% (2024-25).
Source: Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education
Compare with Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh
- 1 KA Karnataka 18.3% 2024-25
- 2 GJ Gujarat 16.9% 2024-25
- 3 MH Maharashtra 11.5% 2024-25
- 4 TN Tamil Nadu 8.5% 2024-25
- 5 UP Uttar Pradesh 7.0% 2024-25
Tamil Nadu highlighted. Each row shows that state's value and the year it is from — compare like years with care.
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Methodology & notes
Secondary (Grades 9-10) dropout rate, Total, from UDISE+ Booklet Table 6.13 (Existing Structure), parsed from the official PDF. Series starts 2022-23 (UDISE+ student-wise database era).
All values
Every observation, by state and period. Newest first.
Tamil Nadu
- FY25 2024-25 8.5%
- FY24 2023-24 7.7%
- FY23 2022-23 10.3%
Maharashtra 3 values
- FY25 2024-25 11.5%
- FY24 2023-24 10.1%
- FY23 2022-23 16.0%
Karnataka 3 values
- FY25 2024-25 18.3%
- FY24 2023-24 22.1%
- FY23 2022-23 14.9%
Gujarat 3 values
- FY25 2024-25 16.9%
- FY24 2023-24 21.0%
- FY23 2022-23 23.3%
Uttar Pradesh 3 values
- FY25 2024-25 7.0%
- FY24 2023-24 8.7%
- FY23 2022-23 14.7%
Cross-state comparison (FY25)
Sorted low → high. Tamil Nadu highlighted.