the primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the "school education department" of the state. as per the school information report for the academic year 2015–16, there are a total of 5,986 schools. they include, 29 government, 3,452 mandal and zilla parishads, 1 residential, 1688 private, 2 model, 12 kasturba gandhi balika vidyalaya (kgbv), 285 municipal and 517 other types of schools. the total number of students enrolled in primary, upper primary and high schools of the district are 722,123.