Reach to Teach Foundation (RTT)

National test rank moved from 34th to 17th out of 36 states (2021-2024)

• RTT's flagship program here is called CLTP (Comprehensive Learning Transformation Programme), a three-way partnership between RTT, the government's NITI Aayog planning body, and the Arunachal Pradesh government, running since July 2022.
• The state's child wellbeing ranking (the SDG India Index) moved up a full tier, from "Aspirant" to "Performer."
• Its school-quality score (PGI) rose from 439.6 to 527, moving it up a full grade band, from AKANSHI-3 to AKANSHI-1.
• Board exam pass rates also rose: up 21.7 points in Grade 10 and 22.8 points in Grade 12, compared with 2022-23.
• The program currently reaches 2,558 government schools and 170,115 students. RTT's own materials also mention 2,807 schools at the original 2022 signing; both numbers are shown here since RTT hasn't explained the gap.

This is RTT's oldest and best-documented program. Four separate government measures all improved over the same stretch of time, which is a strong signal for a program without a formal independent study behind it.

Cost per student: $8.10 a year, the highest of RTT's six programs. That is the cost of its most established, most hands-on partnership.

Aiming to move from 35th to 25th out of 36 states by 2027

• RTT co-designed a new curriculum with the Meghalaya government starting in 2023, as part of the Chief Minister's IMPACT education initiative.
• Early signs are encouraging: every school has adopted the new syllabus, and 85% are already using the new teaching methods.
• The state is aiming to move its child wellbeing ranking from "Aspirant" (score 40) to "Performer" (score 50).
• It is also aiming to raise its school-quality score (PGI) from 448 to 510, a full grade band higher, from AKANSHI-3 to AKANSHI-1.
• The program currently reaches 7,774 government schools and 412,853 students.

Meghalaya started near the bottom of the national rankings, so there is real room to improve. These are goals RTT is working toward, not results it has already achieved.

Cost per student: $2.91 a year.

A learning decline since 2017, and a new program meant to reverse it

• RTT's longest relationship with any state, going back to 2007. It shifted from hands-on delivery to an advisory role in 2019, and RTT's India operations merged into one foundation in 2025.
• RTT already has some relationship with about 5.12 million children across roughly 33,446 government schools in Gujarat, per RTT's website. The 2026 program's 2.4 million target is additional reach on top of that, not a subset of it, bringing Gujarat's combined footprint to about 7.52 million children if the new program succeeds.
• Gujarat used to be one of the top three states in the country for learning outcomes. Since 2017 it has fallen below the national average, a drop of 10 to 15 points.
• In 2024-25, Gujarat had the steepest one-year drop in school-quality score (PGI) of any Indian state, down 31.5 points, landing it in grade band PRACHESTA-3 (582.9).
• A new 2026 agreement applies the same approach that worked in Arunachal Pradesh here, aiming to move Gujarat from 26th to 15th out of 36 states and lift it to grade band PRACHESTA-1 by 2027-28, including a rollout in the government's flagship PM-SHRI schools.
• RTT's own materials give two different current rankings for Gujarat: 26th in the main results table and 31st in a separate bullet on the same slide. Shown here as 26th to match the table; a direct question is in to RTT about the gap.

Gujarat is different from RTT's other active states. This is not a request to fund proven results. It is a request to fund a new attempt to fix a decline that has already happened.

Cost per student: $0.61 a year under the new program, budgeted to reach 2.4 million additional children, on top of RTT's existing 5.12 million-child relationship in the state.

A school accreditation program, different from RTT's other three active states

• RTT co-designed Haryana's School Quality Assurance and Accreditation Framework, launched by the Chief Minister in October 2023.
• The program currently covers 14,267 government schools and 2,149,096 children.
• This program does not appear in RTT's main funding pitch deck at all, so there is no learning-outcome data or cost figure to show. That fits with what the program actually is: it accredits schools rather than teaching children directly, so it would not be measured the same way as the others anyway.

Haryana is real and active, but it is not a teaching program, so it cannot be judged by the same evidence as RTT's other three states. There is nothing to compare yet.

Cost per student: data pending. RTT has not published a cost figure, and this is a confirmed gap rather than a zero.