GES opens 2025 School placement portal for BECE candidates today

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that the 2025 School Placement Portal is officially open today, September 1, 2025, for candidates who participated in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

The portal will be available from today until Sunday, September 8, 2025, allowing candidates to verify their information before final placements are published.

This was announced by the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Ernest Kofi Davis, during a press briefing.

“With the release of the 2025 BECE results on August 23, we have begun processing the data. Placement will be matched against available vacancies in second-cycle institutions.

“This process is expected to take no more than three weeks. From September 1 to September 8, the portal will be open for candidates to review their school choices, biodata, and other relevant information,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the Service has also debunked rumours circulating on social media and other platforms suggesting that fixed cut-off points would be used in the school placement process for Senior High Schools.

In a statement, GES clarified that candidate placements are predominantly determined by their raw scores.

They also take into account several other elements, including school competitiveness, demand for specific programmes, candidates’ aggregates, residential preferences such as whether they are opting for day or boarding schools, and considerations of catchment areas.

The Service indicated that the idea of fixed cut-off points is misleading and should not be part of the placement process, labelling these assertions as attempts by certain individuals to deceive the public.

“Anyone relying on such so-called cut-off benchmarks has been misinformed,” the statement said.