Best schools by region and category

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Guides and data

• Category A, B and C schools

  What the categories mean in school selection, the official counts of places, and why we do not print an unofficial list.

• Regions and districts ranked

  Every region and district ranked on published education data, with the year and source of each table. No school is ranked.

• Districts ranked

  Every district ranked on the District League Table education index, with BECE pass rates and the median by region.

• Cities and towns

  Schools in Accra, Kumasi, Tamale, Takoradi, Tema, Kasoa and the other cities, and every town with ten or more schools.

• Schools near me

  Share your location or pick your town, and see the closest schools of the kind you want, with distances.

• Which districts rank highest in education, year by year

  Best-performing districts in education: the top 20 in the District League Table for 2019/20 to 2021/22. Greater Accra and Ashanti held 14 places in 2020/21.

• The map

  Every school in Ghana on one map. Pan to your town, filter, and click a pin to open the school.

• Top 20 senior high schools in Ghana

  A list of 20 leading schools ordered by NSMQ record and the Ministry's most chosen schools, with the method shown.

• Leading boys' senior high schools

  Boys' schools ordered by the same public facts.

• Leading girls' senior high schools

  Girls' schools ordered by the same public facts.

• Leading mixed senior high schools

  Mixed schools ordered by the same public facts.

• Category A, B and C schools by region

  A page for each of the 16 regions: what is official, the schools on the register and the places open on the CSSPS portal.

• How we build ranking pages

  The signals we use, the points we give and what we refuse to rank on.

• Senior high schools in Ashanti Region

  7,051 schools in 43 districts.

• Senior high schools in Greater Accra Region

  5,405 schools in 29 districts.

• Senior high schools in Eastern Region

  5,241 schools in 33 districts.

• Senior high schools in Central Region

  4,307 schools in 22 districts.

• Senior high schools in Western Region

  3,052 schools in 14 districts.

• Senior high schools in Northern Region

  2,701 schools in 16 districts.

• Senior high schools in Volta Region

  2,493 schools in 18 districts.

• Senior high schools in Upper East Region

  2,298 schools in 15 districts.

• Senior high schools in Upper West Region

  1,931 schools in 11 districts.

• Senior high schools in Bono Region

  1,883 schools in 12 districts.

• Senior high schools in Bono East Region

  1,684 schools in 11 districts.

• Senior high schools in Western North Region

  1,508 schools in 9 districts.

• Senior high schools in Oti Region

  1,311 schools in 9 districts.

• Senior high schools in Savannah Region

  968 schools in 7 districts.

• Senior high schools in Ahafo Region

  872 schools in 6 districts.

• Senior high schools in North East Region

  721 schools in 6 districts.