Methodology and sources

How the register is built

1. The base is the Ministry of Education school register for 2023/24. It gives each school its name, level, ownership, region and district, exactly as the register has them.
2. A public school directory adds telephone numbers and some positions.
3. The lists published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana, Ghana Tertiary Education Commission and Ghana TVET Service add nursing and midwifery colleges, universities, colleges of education and technical and vocational institutes, with accreditation status and dates as the regulator prints them. The level of an institution is read from the regulator’s own category and is never guessed.
4. A small number of tertiary and senior high entries come from public encyclopaedia records and are marked as such.
5. A school can write to us from a school address to confirm or correct its record. A confirmation replaces whatever the register says, and the page then reads Confirmed by the school.

Our principles

• Official sources come first. A public record from a publisher or regulator outranks anything else.
• Names are kept as the source writes them.
• A map position we doubt is flagged. It is never guessed.
• Nothing is estimated. Where we hold nothing, the page says so.
• A regulator’s own categories decide the level of an institution.
• A school can confirm its own record, and its confirmation replaces what the register says.

Fees, ratings and enrolment

Fees are shown when a school publishes them through its SchoolRegistry profile, with the date it published them. We never estimate a fee. Where a school has not published its fees, its page says so and lets parents ask the school to publish them.

There are no ratings and no enrolment figures for any school, because no public register in Ghana holds them and nothing here is estimated. If a school tells you something different, the school is right.

Licences and credits

The school directory data is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Data licence: CC BY 4.0, credit SchoolRegistry.

Map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence. Place names are from GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0. Indicator series from World Bank Open Data are used under CC BY 4.0. Photographs carry their own credit and licence beside the picture.

Research partner

SchoolRegistry Ghana is part of the same research group as PollsAfrica. If you want to see how its polls and surveys are designed, read PollsAfrica's published research methods. The two sites keep separate data and editorial teams, and neither ranks the other's records.

Every source in full

Each row names the publisher, the dataset or document and the year it reports.

A source missing from this page, or a record that is wrong, can be reported to data@schoolregistryghana.com. What each record status on a school page means is explained on How we handle data.