Probabilistic and deterministic approaches in measuring technical efficiency of schools in Coimbatore district

The main aim of this paper is to estimate the Technical Efficiency of the schools in Coimbatore district using probabilistic Normal Half-Normal Stochastic Frontier Production Model (NHNSFPM) and the deterministic Linear Programming Data Envelopment Analysis model. The present study incorporates Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis techniques to measure the technical efficiency of the three sectors of schools namely government, private and aided schools at their secondary and higher secondary levels on the basis of their performance and views on the Mathematics and Science subjects and school related factors viz., student-teacher ratio (STR), socio-economic status(SES), syllabus (SYL), learning disability(LD), teaching related factors(TF) and school facilities (SF). The primary data was collected from all the three sectors of schools in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu. The study also identifies the key variable and the sub-factors with respect to the key variable affecting the efficiency of the schools among the seven input variables considered for the study.