Can I change school after the 2022 SHS Placement and enrolment?

Can I change school after the 2022 SHS Placement and enrolment? Can I change my school placement? How do a get a transfer from one SHS to another? These are the questions that this article will answer for all candidates.

2022 SHS Placement will be released by the GES when the placements are ready, but one question that students and parents need to answer ahead of the release is:  Can I change the secondary school I have been placed in? One of the reasons for the desire to change the school one is placed in is the distance from the school and the student’s residence, especially if the learner is placed in the school as a day student. In some instances, the student may be placed in an all-girls school while he is a male or may be placed in a school meant for only those who are physically challenged yet he or she is not physically challenged. Often the school selection and BECE registration take care of these likely outcomes through the vetting of the data present to WAEC and GES ahead of the BECE.

Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs about School placement

Even before the GES releases the 2022 School Placements, BECE candidates are asking this question, Can a person change school after enrolment?

Now, let us understand the difference between School Placement and School Enrolment in an attempt to answer this question.

To be placed in a school (School Placement) means to be offered the chance to study in a given school through the CSSPS’ automatic placement or the Self Placement Module.

Free Senior High School Enrolment means the candidate has been given admission and he or she has accepted it, gone through the necessary processes and documentation which makes him or her a student of the school. Enrolment processes start from the day you visit the Senior High School for the first time for a prospectus.

Now, the big answer, to the question  “Can I change school after enrolment?” is a BIG NO. 

The school placement process ends once a candidate begins the admission process by going to the school to complete the relevant form(s). The only chance one has to be placed in a new school has been explained above. Where for some reason the GES asks some particular students to call its call centre, a particular situation or reason may prompt the GES to change a student’s placement. One of such is where the student is automatically placed but in a school, he or she did not select. To avoid this, the GES requested parents and students to verify the schools captured for them by their various Junior High Schools.

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How do a get a transfer from one SHS to another? 

The above explanation means that students can only get a transfer if they deserve and qualify for it, and not to change their school placement.

What is a transfer from one Free SHS to another Free SHS? This is the movement of a student from one school to another after enrolment in the previous school for at least one year. This means if a student enrolled in Kinbu Sec-Tech decided to get a transfer to Achimota SHS, he or she must study Kinbu Sec-Tech before requesting a transfer. This in itself goes through a series of processes.

To prevent the need for students to request for change of placement, candidates were given the opportunity to select up to six schools. Each school you selected was supposed to be done with careful thought because you can be placed in any of them.

We hope we have cleared your doubts and answered the question of whether you can change your 2022 SHS Placement and enrolment?

What information will be on a typical School Placement Result Summary?

Once you log into the school placement portal to check your placement, you will be greeted by a 2022 School Placement Report Summary which will contain the following information. Check the full details after the image below.

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a. Your name and Index Number.

b. The school you have been placed in, the school code of that particular institution, the region, and the school district. This is to help students and parents to locate such schools.

c. The programme you have been offered will also be available along with the accommodation type [DAY] or [BOARING]

d. The reopening date for students.

e. All the Six school choices the student made ahead of the BECE will be on the summary document.

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f. The student’s final aggregate as calculated by GES and the total raw score obtained by the candidate. This is the actual raw score that determines the school you are placed in. Below is a typical School Placement Result Summary Sheet on the CSSPS portal.

Source: Ghanaeducation.org| Wisdom Hammond