Selection of schools under CSSPS: Students to pick 2 category A schools

• Posted on May 6, 2026May 6, 2026
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Candidates writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will be required to choose two Category ‘A’ senior high schools, one with boarding houses and the other a day school within their district, for the next phase of their education.

The adjustment is part of measures to improve the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) to ensure smoother placement after the release of results, and to address repeated placement challenges under the CSSPS programme.

“We did a few changes. Last year, the students picked seven schools.

This year, we have given them the chance to pick eight schools.

“Eight schools in the sense that now they are going to consider two Category ‘A’ schools, one boarding and one day within their vicinity,” the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Ernest Kofi Davis, announced as he responded to questions from journalists at a press briefing in Accra last Sunday.

In the previous year, candidates were required to select seven schools.

In the previous year, candidates were required to select seven schools.

In the previous year, candidates were required to select seven schools.

Five of those schools belonged to the main selection, with two as alternatives for second placement.

Candidates were restricted to  select only one school in Category ‘A’, while they had the opportunity to select a maximum of two schools in Category ‘B’.

For Category ‘C’, candidates could select up to five schools.