Shillong, July 24: Jyoti Sroat Higher Secondary School in East Khasi Hills district topped the state ranking of schools..
Meghalaya School Performance Grading Index (MSPGI) 2025-26 was released by Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui on Friday.
The score of the Jyoti Sroat school is 930/1000, Uttam-1 grade.
Step by Step Lawwahskei L.P. School, West Khasi Hills district is at the bottom.
The score is 26/1000, Akanshi-10 grade.
According to the Meghalaya School Performance Grading Index (MS-PGI), all 11,443 schools assessed across the State have been classified into a five-tier, sixteen-level grading structure — Utkarsh, Uttam, Prachesta, and Akanshi (in descending order of performance) — based on their composite score out of 1,000. Each grade corresponds to a fixed score band and performance level.
The distribution is heavily skewed toward the lower grading bands. No school in the state has yet secured the top grade of Utkarsh, indicating that universal, all-round excellence across all 43 indicators remains an aspirational target rather than a present achievement. Only 113 schools (1.0% of the total) fall in the Uttam band (Uttam-1 to Uttam-3), reflecting a very small pool of consistently high-performing schools.
The Prachesta band (Prachesta-1 to Prachesta-3) accounts for 1,027 schools, or 9.0% of the total, representing schools that have moved past the foundational stage but have yet to achieve strong, consistent performance across domains.
The overwhelming majority of schools — 10,303 schools, or 90.0% of the total — fall within the Akanshi band (Akanshi-1 to Akanshi-10), which spans the lower and lower-middle tiers of the grading scale. Within this band, performance is concentrated around the middle levels: Akanshi-3 and Akanshi-4 alone account for 4,284 schools (37.4% of all schools in the State), forming the single largest cluster in the entire distribution. This bulge suggests that a large majority of schools have crossed the most basic thresholds of accessibility and infrastructure but continue to face gaps in digital education, NEP-aligned activities, and quality indicators that are needed to progress toward the Prachesta and Uttam bands.
A very small number of schools — 27 in Akanshi-9 and just 1 in Akanshi-10 — remain at the lowest end of the scale, indicating that acute, multi-dimensional deficiencies are the exception rather than the norm, even though they warrant focused, school-specific intervention.
Implication
With nearly nine in ten schools placed in the Akanshi band, the principal policy priority is to shift the large middle cluster (particularly Akanshi-3 and Akanshi-4) upward into the Prachesta band. Targeted, domain-specific interventions in Digital Education and Quality — the domains most likely to be constraining movement out of the Akanshi band — are likely to yield the greatest gains in the State’s overall MS-PGI performance in subsequent assessment cycles.
