Complete Guidelines and Norms for Rationalization and Re-Structuring of AP Schools-2025

Andhra Pradesh School Education Department – G.O.Ms.No.21, Dated: 13-05-2025 – Rationalization of Teaching Staff

The Government of Andhra Pradesh decided to change things up a bit. Re-Structuring of AP Schools-2025 G.O.Ms.No.117, dated 10.06.2022, to bring in some fresh ideas about schools & teachers with G.O.Ms.No.21, School Education (Prog.I) dated 13.05.2025. This change? It was partly ’cause of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009 which says there should be enough teachers for kids in classes 1 to 8.

Key Moves & Changes:

• Guess what? Municipal schools are now under the care of the School Education Department.
• New rules came out for balancing teachers in Government, Zilla Parishad (ZP), and Mandal Parishad (MPP) schools.
• Earlier, they mixed up 3rd to 5th grades from about 4,731 primary schools into 3,348 bigger schools within a 1 km reach.
• This shuffle affected 243,000 kids! Many joined private schools between 2022–23 and 2024–25. This led to more dropouts & made high school teachers busier.

New Goals:

1. Bring more kids into school.
2. Stop them from quitting.
3. Make sure teachers aren’t overloaded.
4. Help kids learn better!

Moving & Changing Teacher Jobs

• 4,706 extra School Assistant (SA) posts are changing into:
  • Headmasters (Model Primary Schools)
  • Cluster-level Academic Support Teachers
• 2,754 SAs/SGTs will fill in as temporary teachers where they’re needed.
• 615 posts will be sorted within the same group.
• 4,545 new spots are created (534 HMs, 3,086 SAs, 925 SGTs).
• 779 Upper Primary Schools got upgraded to High Schools.
• 1,902 extra empty spots are saved for future needs at the district level.

School Grouping Under New Ideas

1. Satellite Foundational School (PP1 & PP2)
2. Foundational School (PP1, PP2, Classes 1–2)
3. Basic Primary School (PP1–Class 5)
4. Model Primary School (PP1–Class 5)
5. Upper Primary School (PP1–Class 8)
6. High School (Classes 6–10)
7. High School (Classes 1–10)
8. High School Plus (Classes 6–12)
9. High School Plus (Classes 1–12)

How Teachers Are Shared Out

For Tiny and Small Schools:

• Foundational Schools (PP1–2, Classes 1–2):
  • If there are between 1–30 students: They get 1 SGT.
  • Between 31–60 kiddos? There’ll be 2 SGTs.
• Basic Primary Schools (PP1–Class 5):
  • Groups of 1–20 little ones have: Just one SGT
  • Groups of 21–60 need: Two SGTs
• Model Primary Schools (PP1–Class 5):
  • If there’s ≤59 students: They’re lucky to have a HM/SA + three SGTs
  • Got between sixty & one-fifty kids? One HM/SA + Four SGTs are needed
  • More than a hundred fifty? Add another SGT for every thirty students.

For Bigger Upper Primary Schools:

• **Classes from Grades one through Five follow Basic or Model Primary rules.
• Classes six through eight:
  • With just one-ten students: One SA’s enough
  • Eleven to thirty pupils means: Two SAs are required
  • Thirty-one up to a hundred forty wanna have: Four SAs
  • A gathering of one hundred forty-one to a hundred seventy-five needs: Five SAs
    (Subject-wise prefers Hindi/English/Maths/Biology/Social/Physics/Telugu)

For High Schools ages Grade six through Ten:

• Those with less than seventy-five enrolled: Won’t have HM or SA(PE)/PET positions; most-senior SA fills in as HM.
• Cluster High Schools always receive: A HM and one SA(PE)/PET—doesn’t matter how many students they have!
• When enrollment’s over Four-hundred: There’s room for a second PET post—and another comes every additional three hundred fifty!

Other Cool Points:

• Schools having two languages add kids together for SA/Language jobs.
• Tiny medium mediums stick with subject-special norms.
• Panel Grade Headmasters need teaching EIGHT hours a week at least!
• Special Ed Teachers are designated where there’re CwSN friends.
• Other Instructors like music and sewing ones come by school kind/enrollment.

There! That’s just about everything you gotta know right now! Hope it helps!