With the Ghana Education Service (GES) and Ministry of Education (MoE) releasing the 2023 placement checkers for sale, Ghana Education News believes the wait is almost over and that the SHS placement will be released before November 30th.
The school placement will be accessible on www.cssps.gov.gh using your valid checker card (voucher number and pin).
Is the 2023 SHS placement out?
At the time of this publication, the GES has not released the placement. Do not check until it is officially out.
Since SHS1 students are to report to school on December 4th, the GESS and MoE would want to release the placement at least one week before the December 4th reporting date for SHS1 students.
Candidates and parents are also to note that they are to add 23 to the student’s index number. The 23 means the candidate sat the 2023 BECE administered by WAEC from August 7th to 11th, 2023.
Students and parents who choose schools based on their taste and not the academic strength of the student will most likely be disappointed when the placements are out.
The candidates who are anxiously waiting for their placements will be classified into four groups as soon as the school placement is out.
The student groups are as follows:
1. Automatically placed candidates: 99% of these will not be changed.
2. The second batch are students who will be using the self-placement
3. Candidates who were not placed in any school and cannot do the self-placement because they obtained grade 9 in either mathematics or integrated science
4. Candidates whose results have been cancelled or withheld. There is no placement for such students.
Check your school placement early.
Prepare for self-placement using the tips shared in this post [2023 BECE graduates with an aggregate 25–48 likely to do self-placement if…]
Avoid being scammed by syndicates that make you believe that they can change your school placement for a fee. Once you pay any money to faceless helpers, you will not get any service.
Do not leave your self-placement in the hands of uninformed cafe attendants.
Parents must take the school placement check very seriously and ensure that they make important inputs into the self-planning decisions of their wards.
If your ward is not placed in any of the schools selected, it is often because there were students who had better raw scores compared to your ward’s score.
If you have issues with your placement, kindly call the GES School Placement contact below.
The Ghana Education News Editorial Team is a specialized collective of education researchers, journalists, and policy analysts dedicated to providing high-fidelity reporting on the Ghanaian academic landscape. Serving as a primary bridge between governing bodies—including the Ghana Education Service (GES) and WAEC—and the public, the team leverages over a decade of combined experience to serve students, parents, and educators nationwide.
Lead Architect & Editor-in-Chief
The team is led by Wisdom Kojo Eli Hammond, a distinguished Ghanaian Edu-Tech Entrepreneur, AI Solutions Developer, and Product Architect with over 25 years of cross-disciplinary experience in education, finance, and digital media. Wisdom is the visionary force behind SkulManager, Ghana’s premier school management ecosystem, and the Lead Consultant at Education-News Consult.
A self-taught innovator, professional Web Designer, and regular columnist on GhanaWeb, Wisdom engineered SkulManager.com as the only platform strictly tailored to the GES Curriculum. His technical leadership has redefined educational assessment through a Hybrid Marking Ecosystem, pioneering the BECE and WASSCE Home Mock services—a unique fusion of WAEC-trained human examiners and advanced AI marking engines operational since 2022.
Wisdom’s 360-degree view of institutional challenges is grounded in his tenure as College President and Lecturer at Pinnacle College (Achimota), as well as his background as a school administrator and accountant. He is a dedicated lifelong learner currently advancing his studies at the Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), with academic ties to the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA).
An accomplished author, his works include Returnees of the Dead Forest (UK Published), Simplified Beacon of Light (850+ Q&A), and The Leader in Me. A foundational pillar of the award-winning NGO Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG), Wisdom is committed to building intelligent systems that solve societal problems and prepare the next generation of Ghanaian students for a digital future.
Contact: 0550360658 | Portals: GhanaEducation.org, GhanaEducationNews.org, SkulManager.com, BECEPrep.com. Educationnewsconsult.com etc