Educate 32000 underserved children in India

Foundational literacy and numeracy have often been treated as the goal post for first-generation learners from low-income communities. Thanks to YOUR support, Teach for India is proving that our systems need to dream bigger for ALL our children.

As the 2025–2026 academic year draws to a close, we are proud to share what over 32,000 students and their 1,000+ Didis/Bhaiyas (TFI Fellows/teachers) have accomplished together across 880+ classrooms in India's highest-need regions. It has been a year of remarkable results and we see momentum building not just in metrics, but in mindsets, mastery, and movement.

Here is a glimpse of what you have made possible through your geneoristy.

Holistic Student Development: Results That Reflect Our Belief

At Teach For India, we have always believed that the children who face the greatest barriers deserve the greatest ambitions. This year's academic outcomes are a testament to what becomes possible when students, Fellows (teachers), and school leaders stay deeply committed, believe in every child's potential, and hold high expectations.

Every single one of TFI's Grade 10 Delhi students passed their Board exams — and the 100% pass rate is only the beginning.

• 47% achieved first class distinction, compared to 26% last year, with two schools reaching 68% and 60% respectively.
• Across all regions, overall academic metrics improved by 5 to 9 percentage points — consistent, system-wide progress driven by a holistic approach rooted in understanding, application, and 21st century skill building rather than rote learning.

What excites us most is not just what TFI students are scoring. It is what they are doing with what they know.

• 80% of TFI classrooms met mid-year targets for our Student Vision Scale of Leading Self, Leading Others, and Leading India.
• In Ahmedabad, Grade 6 students launched a podcast, interviewing scientists and community leaders, discovering their own voices in the process.
• In Delhi, Grade 8 students turned a classroom conversation about hygiene and civic responsibility into a whole-school movement, learning that you can drive change at any age. 

And the impact of finding one's confidence and curiosity endures long after students leave our classrooms. Alumni are running their own mentoring programs while completing degrees abroad and winning McKinsey Case Competitions.

More than 80 student alumni have come full circle — returning to serve as TFI Fellows and be the leaders that give other children the same clarity and opportunity they once received.

Beyond these students, there is another layer of leaders rising within the classrooms.  

Reshaping the System: Scaling a Movement of Leaders

Teach For India Fellows are the engine behind these student outcomes. Carefully selected through a rigorous process with an acceptance rate of just ~2.5%, they commit two years to teaching in under-resourced schools — and emerge as lifelong leaders with an unmatched drive for equity and the ability to lead with love.

The numbers reflect the transformation they experience:

• 96% of Year 2 Fellows aspire to remain in the education or social sector;
• 70% of alumni do remain, year after year, powering a multiplier effect that drives impact for decades.
• TFI's 5,300 alumni have collectively founded 160+ organizations and, working at every level of India's education system, reach 50 million children.

Behind every statistic is a person who chose to go deeper. This year, that commitment was formally recognized: St. Xavier's College is awarding approximately 60 Fellows a Master's in Transformational Leadership, built around the fellowship experience itself. These Fellows are doing the kind of reflective work that defines great leaders — writing portraits of their students as full human beings, mapping the communities their children come from, building belonging through morning meetings, and listening carefully to the school stakeholders whose stories often go unheard. We invite you to explore their beautiful work.

This year also marked the launch of Teach For India’s 9th region — Gurgaon, reaching children who have never before had a TFI Fellow in their classroom. This will increase the cohort of TFI Fellows to be recruited in 2026 to ~600 compared to 500 in 2025. 

Alongside this expansion, TFI is working with authorities and alumni to establishing Child Safety Collectives across all regions — a commitment to ensuring that every school in our network is a safe and dignified space for every child. After all, excellent education begins with protection, trust, and belonging.

How Your Support Fuels This Work

None of the above would be possible without YOU. The support that allows a brilliant young person to spend two years in India's most underserved classrooms. The coaching that shapes an aspiring changemaker into a great teacher. The development that turns a Fellow into a lifelong leader for equity. Your generosity makes all of it possible — and every classroom result, every student who found their voice, every alumni who came back to serve, traces back to that investment.

The movement you have helped build is working. It is transforming student lives and creating India's most capable talent pipeline for the social sector. And yet, the children waiting for their first excellent teacher cannot wait. The next generation of leaders is sitting in many more classrooms right now — and they need a Fellow to believe in them before they can believe in themselves. We need your continued partnership to keep that belief alive.

Thank you for trusting in our vision and dreaming bigger with us — that one day, all children will attain an excellent education — and for bringing us closer, year by year, to making that dream a reality in communities that need it most.

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