Increase the result of improvement in infrastructure: CM As many as 1.75 lakh new students took admission in classes 1 to 10 in State schools this academic year. A statement from the Chief Minister’s office said these figures were recorded on the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE)’s Sampoorna school management portal till December 28. A total of 6.8 lakh students have joined State schools in the four years since the implementation of the Public Education Rejuvenation Mission, the statement said. In class 1 alone, 8,170 more students took admission this year as compared to the previous year. The maximum number of students who took admission was in class 5 – 43,789 more students than the year before. In class 8, 35,606 more students took admission.