SHILLONG, July 24: Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui on Thursday released the Meghalaya School Performance Grading Index (MSPGI) 2025-26, the state’s first-ever school-level assessment framework. The index evaluates all 11,443 recognised schools across the 12 districts on the basis of certified UDISE+ 2025-26 data.
The launch coincides with Meghalaya achieving its best-ever Performance Grading Index (PGI) score of 525.71 points, moving the state from the Akanshi-3 category to Akanshi-1 for the first time under the national PGI 2.0 framework. The PGI was released recently by the Union Ministry of Education.
What the MSPGI measures
The MSPGI assesses schools against 43 indicators spread across five domains — Accessibility, Digital Education, Infrastructure Facilities, NEP Activities and Quality Parameters — with a maximum composite score of 1,000 points. Every school receives an individual School Report Card showing its score, performance grade and ranking position.
Speaking at the release, the minister said the index has been designed as a diagnostic and planning tool rather than a pure ranking exercise. It aims to give school heads, teachers, school management committees, block and district authorities a common, transparent language to identify strengths, pinpoint gaps and direct support where it is most needed.
How scores are calculated
Scores are drawn entirely from UDISE+ 2025-26 data that schools themselves filled, finalised and certified. Binary indicators carry full weight for compliance and zero otherwise, while percentage-based indicators are scored proportionately.
Where an indicator does not apply to a particular category of school, its weight is redistributed among the remaining applicable indicators to keep the assessment fair.
Schools are placed in one of 17 performance grades ranging from Utkarsh (Outstanding) to Akanshi-10 (Intensive Support). The grading is against absolute standards rather than relative ranking alone.
Link with the national performance index
The MSPGI is modelled on the national Performance Grading Index administered by the Ministry of Education. While the national PGI presents a state-level picture, the Meghalaya version takes the same principles down to the individual school.
Improvements recorded under the MSPGI in infrastructure, digital readiness, NEP-aligned activities and quality parameters feed directly into the indicators on which the State’s own PGI score is calculated.
Meghalaya’s PGI score has risen from 401.62 in 2022-23 to 525.71 in 2025-26. The Education Department expects the new school-level index to sustain and accelerate this upward trajectory.
What state’s schools are expected to do?
The Education department has asked every school to treat its Report Card as the starting point of a simple improvement cycle: review the results, discuss them with teachers and the school management committee, identify priority gaps, plan feasible actions, seek support from block and district authorities where required, and track progress in the next cycle.
Higher-performing schools are encouraged to act as reference institutions for peer learning. District and block authorities have been directed to use the consolidated results to identify schools and areas that need facilitation or administrative support.
The department clarified that the MSPGI complements, and does not replace, academic inspections, classroom observations and other ongoing assessments. The score should not be read as a stand-alone measure of children’s learning achievement.
Rymbui reiterated the government’s commitment to evidence-based planning and continuous improvement in school education, expressing confidence that the MSPGI, used alongside existing academic and administrative processes, will help schools progressively meet institutional standards and further strengthen Meghalaya’s standing under the national PGI.
Jyoti Sroat School tops rankings
SHILLONG, July 24: Jyoti Sroat School Higher Secondary in East Khasi Hills has emerged as the top-ranked school in Meghalaya under the newly released Meghalaya School Performance Grading Index (MSPGI) 2025-26, securing 930 points out of a maximum of 1,000.
Army Public School Shillong stood second with 924 points, followed by Army Public School, Ri-Bhoi (922), Jyoti Sroat PM SHRI School (921) and Delhi Public School Khanapara (902). Synod Higher Secondary School (901), Montfort PM SHRI LPS, West Garo Hills (892), Montfort Higher Secondary (883), Star Public School, East Jaintia Hills (869) and Hill Crest Higher Secondary School (863) completed the top 10.
Of the overall top 100 schools, 74 are private institutions while 26 belong to the government and related public-sector categories (including PM SHRI, SSA and others). The school ranked 100th scored 768 points.
East Khasi Hills accounted for 48 of the top 100 schools, followed by Ri-Bhoi with 16 and West Garo Hills with 9.
In the separate ranking of government and public-sector schools, Jyoti Sroat PM SHRI School topped the list with 921 points, while the 100th school in this category scored 682 points. East Khasi Hills dominated this list as well with 38 schools, followed by Ri-Bhoi (12) and West Garo Hills (11).
Montfort PM SHRI LPS (West Garo Hills) came second with 892 points, followed by Mary Rice Centre for Special Education SSA LP School, Lamjingshai PM SHRI Higher Secondary School and Raid Shabong Border Area PM SHRI Government Secondary School. Among private schools, Jyoti Sroat School Higher Secondary retained the top position with 930 points. The 100th private school scored 752 points. East Khasi Hills contributed 50 schools to the private top-100 list, followed by Ri Bhoi with 18 and seven each from West Garo Hills and East Jaintia Hills.
No school in the state reached the highest grade of Utkarsh (941–1000). The top score of 930 places Jyoti Sroat School in the Uttam-1 (Excellent) category under the 17-grade framework that ranges from Utkarsh to Akanshi-10 (0–40).
Officials said the rankings are meant to recognise higher fulfilment of the approved indicators and to serve as reference points for peer learning and continuous improvement rather than as a competitive exercise.
