The Education Ministry has announced that the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) results will be released tomorrow, Friday, September 4.
According to the Education Ministry, they are fully prepared to release the placement results tomorrow, Friday, September 4, after delays caused by thousands of candidates who were unable to upload their data.
Speaking on the Joy FM Super Morning Show on Thursday, September 3, Press Secretary and Spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, Hashmin Mohammed stated, “We are set to release the placement results tomorrow [Friday]. When we thought we could release it as of last week, unfortunately, we had some students who were unable to load their data into the CSSPS system. And then, looking at the number, the number was huge”.
“If we are operating on an equity-based system, we needed to offer them the opportunity to extend the date so that they would be able to upload their data into the system for them to be placed into a school,” he said.
“One of the requirements is that once you are qualified, you need to be placed into a school,” he said.
“As I am speaking to you now, we’ve had about 18,000 who have inputted their data into the system,” he disclosed.
“The remaining 2,000, we know where they are. They are the special needs schools. And special needs schools, they don’t need to go through the choice confirmation,” he explained.
“Their schools only give us the list, and then we place them manually into the system because their schools are already defined,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has released the National Harmonised Prospectus for prospective Senior High School (SHS) and Senior High Technical School (SHTS) students for the 2026/2027 academic year.
The National Harmonised Prospectus is intended to guide parents and students on the essential items required for enrolment.
According to the GES, parents and students preparing for the next stage of their education must carefully review the prospectus and make the necessary preparations ahead of the new academic year.
The GES also urged schools and relevant stakeholders to adhere to the requirements outlined in the prospectus to ensure a smooth, consistent and standardised admission process nationwide.
In a statement signed by Daniel Fenyi, Head of Public Relations at GES read, “Ahead of the release of the school placements, this prospectus is intended to provide parents and students with clear guidance on the essential items required for enrolment, ensuring that all newly admitted SHS students are adequately prepared to begin the academic year”.
“Parents and students are encouraged to carefully review the prospectus and make the necessary preparations ahead of the commencement of the 2026/2027 academic year”.
“Schools and other relevant stakeholders are also expected to adhere to the requirements outlined in the National Harmonised Prospectus to ensure a smooth, consistent and standardised admission process nationwide,” the statement added.
Also, Sherif Sulemana, the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) Secretariat Coordinator, has announced that about 565,000 candidates who sat for the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have qualified for placement into Senior High Schools.
He detailed that out of the nearly 620,000 who sat for the exams, about 565,000 candidates have qualified for placement into Senior High Schools.
Speaking on JoyFM’s Super Morning Show on Thursday, September 3, Mr Sherif stated, “
“Based on our analysis, we have about 565,000 qualified for placement this year,” he said.
“Those people have not failed in either English or Mathematics. So, you are disqualified from placement if you have failed in either English or Mathematics,” Mr Sherif explained.
He disclosed that the examination results also revealed varying levels of performance among candidates.
“You find out somebody got one, somebody got ten over 100, somebody got, say, twelve, twenty over 100, and that qualifies as a failure,” he said.
Mr Sherif further disclosed that approximately 55,000 candidates did not meet the requirements for placement.
When asked about the number of candidates who did not qualify for placement, he stated, “There are about 55,000”.
“If you look at the data for the performance of the candidates, we only had about 17 per cent of the candidates getting aggregates from 6 to 18,” he said.
“We only had about 252,000, or about 35 per cent of the candidates, getting from aggregate 6 to 24,” he added.
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