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School staffing in Bihar

27,797 villages in Bihar report both a student count and a teacher count for their school. Those two numbers sit inside a single merged column of the source file and are not published in readable form anywhere.

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Most crowded classrooms in Bihar

Students per teacher at the village school, highest first. The Right to Education Act sets 30:1 for primary and 35:1 for upper primary.

#Village District StudentsTeachers Per teacher
1 Kohbara urf Ramnagar Purnia 3,000 15 200
2 Masumnagar urf Premnagar Sitamarhi 1,200 6 200
3 Hardinadwa Pashchim Champaran 1,000 5 200
4 Andauli Madhubani 1,000 5 200
5 Jhonjhi Madhubani 1,000 5 200
6 Mirchi Patna 1,000 5 200
7 Kheri Bhojpur 1,000 5 200
8 Langri Pashchim Champaran 600 3 200
9 Belwari Uchaipur Purnia 600 3 200
10 Nandan Buxar 600 3 200
11 Barwa Purbi Champaran 400 2 200
12 Ghoghsan Saharsa 400 2 200
13 Baghnagri Muzaffarpur 400 2 200
14 Sahnauli Muzaffarpur 400 2 200
15 Bhadausi Sheikhpura 400 2 200
16 TRIMUHAN Patna 400 2 200
17 Peyarepur Vaishali 200 1 200
18 Gorhiari Patna 200 1 200
19 Sarai Kaimur (Bhabua) 200 1 200
20 Asani Gaya 200 1 200

Best staffed schools in Bihar

Lowest students per teacher. A very low ratio often means a small school rather than a well resourced one.

#Village District StudentsTeachers Per teacher
1 Bhag Pareag Purnia 895 890 1
2 Narauli Muzaffarpur 680 690 1
3 Jhalari Madhepura 400 400 1
4 Koila Sheikhpura 379 379 1
5 Narha Kalyan Sitamarhi 375 375 1
6 Tola Aurabaran Barakola Banka 350 350 1
7 Ganesh Sirsiya Purbi Champaran 310 301 1
8 Chakwae Nawada 270 269 1
9 Khoja Chak Munger 268 268 1
10 Narayanpur Purbi Champaran 250 250 1
11 Chanda Bhojpur 250 250 1
12 Phattu Chhapur Gopalganj 205 203 1
13 Narhan Samastipur 205 205 1
14 Sabya Gopalganj 202 200 1
15 Alhanda Katihar 200 200 1
16 PokharJori Samastipur 200 200 1
17 Bedauli Jehanabad 188 190 1
18 Dumra Saharsa 173 173 1
19 Hardaspur Gaya 170 170 1
20 Raghunathpur Madhuban urf Kaman Chhapra Muzaffarpur 160 160 1
Where these numbers come from, and what we dropped. A village school reporting students but zero teachers gives an infinite ratio, and the source encodes it as a very large number — 762 villages nationally do this. Another 4,407 report zero students. Both are excluded, along with any school under 50 students, where one absent teacher swings the ratio entirely. The figure is for the village's own school only; children who travel to a school in the next village are not in it.