Education
Transition rate (Upper Primary → Secondary)
Share of Grade 8 students who progressed to Grade 9 in the following year. Higher is better. A leading indicator of secondary dropout risk.
Tamil Nadu, latest
96.6%
2024-25
Change
-2.8%
2022-23 → 2024-25
Rank vs compared states
#3 of 5
TN vs MH, KA, GJ, UP · higher is better
Tamil Nadu's Transition rate is 96.6% (2024-25), down +2.8% since 2022-23. It ranks #3 of 5 compared states (higher is better).
Tamil Nadu's Transition rate fell from 99.4% (2022-23) to 96.6% (2024-25).
Source: Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education
Compare with Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh
- 1 MH Maharashtra 98.4% 2024-25
- 2 KA Karnataka 96.7% 2024-25
- 3 TN Tamil Nadu 96.6% 2024-25
- 4 GJ Gujarat 85.0% 2024-25
- 5 UP Uttar Pradesh 78.1% 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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Source provenance
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Methodology & notes
Upper Primary to Secondary (Grade 8 to 9) transition, Total, from UDISE+ Booklet Table 6.14 (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 96.6%
- FY24 2023-24 100.0%
- FY23 2022-23 99.4%
Maharashtra 3 values
- FY25 2024-25 98.4%
- FY24 2023-24 97.7%
- FY23 2022-23 93.0%
Karnataka 3 values
- FY25 2024-25 96.7%
- FY24 2023-24 96.7%
- FY23 2022-23 99.8%
Gujarat 3 values
- FY25 2024-25 85.0%
- FY24 2023-24 88.9%
- FY23 2022-23 85.7%
Uttar Pradesh 3 values
- FY25 2024-25 78.1%
- FY24 2023-24 76.9%
- FY23 2022-23 79.3%
Cross-state comparison (FY25)
Sorted high → low. Tamil Nadu highlighted.