How to change 2025 SHS/TVET placement – https://cssps.gov.gh
Several candidates have asked if they can change their second-cycle school (SHS/TVET) placement at the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) portal. In this blog post, we will explain what we encountered after trying to change a school at https://cssps.gov.gh after doing self-placement.
Per the school placement policy, a student who has automatically been placed in a second-cycle school can not change the placement; however, there is a chance of changing or redoing self-placement even if you have already done that at cssps.gov.gh, but unfortunately, the changes will not be effected.
I discovered this after doing self-placement for a candidate, and tried to see if I could change the self-selected school. The portal allowed me to start a fresh process to select a different school, but after submitting the application, the computerised placement system gave the error “Placement Submission Failed.”
The Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) portal continued to give this message: “An error occurred while submitting your self-placement request. Please try again.”
So clearly, this means you can not change a self-selected school at the CSSPS portal. I recommend that students with special cases visit the school placement resolution centres at the District, Regional, or National levels, for their concerns to be addressed.
How to check 2026 SHS/TVET placement
1. Visit the CSSPS portal
2. Enter your 10-digit index number, followed by “25” to indicate the year you wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) (for example, 123456789025).
3. Enter your Date of Birth (The Date of Birth you used during registration for the Basic Education Certificate Examination)
3. Click on the Sign in button and wait for the placement result to be displayed. After your placement result has been displayed, print the school placement slip and enrolment form slip.
How to do 2026 SHS/TVET self-placement
1. Visit the CSSPS portal
2. Enter the Index number and add 25 (the last two digits of the Basic Education Certificate (BECE) year)
3. Enter Date of Birth (optional)
4. Click on the Sign in button to be redirected to the CSSPS dashboard
5. Click on the Self-placement section
6. Select region (Choose the region you want to select a school from) and then click on Submit Selection
7. Select school (Only schools with vacancies are shown in the selected region) and then click on Submit Selection
8. Select program (Only programs in the selected school with vacancies are shown) and then click on Submit Selection
9. Select Reference type and click on submit
If successful, you will get a notice that your “self-placement application has been submitted, print the school slip, and the enrolment form to confirm.”
Else if not successful, you will get this message: “Placement Submission Failed. An error occurred while submitting your self-placement request. Please try again.”
In other news, the Executive Director for the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST), Dr Peter Partey-Anti, has called on the Ministry of Education (MoE) to start the second-cycle school (SHSTVET) selection after the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results.
According to him, starting the school selection after the release of the national examination results will resolve challenges and ensure fairness in the Computerised School Placement System (CSSPS).
The current school selection system requires final-year Junior High School (JHS) students to choose their preferred schools before sitting for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
Because school selections are completed in advance, placement begins almost immediately after Basic Education Certificate Examination results are released, ensuring that the academic calendar runs on schedule.
However, Peter Anti says the current system is deeply flawed because school selection choices are made without knowledge of actual results (a discrepancy between assumed and realistic performance).
He said the post-results school selection system places enormous pressure on the Ministry of Education to manage results release, school selection, and placement within a compressed timeline, potentially disrupting the academic calendar.
“As a consequence, many candidates, especially those with weaker academic backgrounds, select highly competitive schools where admission is unattainable
When school placements are released, such students are likely to miss their top three choices, leading to frustration, dissatisfaction, and perceptions of unfairness
The pre-results system also creates excessive pressure on a few elite Category A schools, reinforcing inequality in access to quality education,” Peter said in a social media post sighted by Pretertiary.com.
Suggesting a post-results school selection system, he said it offers an alternative that could mitigate these weaknesses, adding that students would first receive their BECE results before making their school choices.
“This enables them to compare their aggregates against the official cut-off points of various schools and also their preferred courses and then make realistic decisions that align with their performance levels.
For example, a candidate with an Aggregate 24 would immediately recognize that their chances at a highly competitive school are slim, and would instead select a Category B or C school where admission is more achievable
The benefits of this system are clear: it reduces the mismatch between student aspirations and school capacities, ensures greater fairness and transparency in placement, and lessens public dissatisfaction with outcomes.
Furthermore, it allows for more effective academic and career counselling, as students’ programme choices, such as Science, Business, or Technical, can be better aligned with their demonstrated ability,” he stated.
He added, “In comparing the two systems, it becomes clear that the pre-results model favours administrative efficiency but undermines fairness and realism, while the post-results model promotes transparency and equity but demands stronger logistical capacity
While post-results selection may present more administrative hurdles, its potential to reduce frustration, promote informed choices, and create a more equitable placement system makes it a reform worth pursuing.”
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I want to change my school
You can not change automatically placed school Aba
Can you change it for me
No, school can not be changed at the CSSPS portal
The C school is far from my town Kintampo Senior High
An error occurred while submitting your self-placement request. Please try again.
Have you already placed?
Please I want to my school
Tibo visit the cssps.gov.gh and enter your index number to check your school placement
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Kusi, visit the cssps.gov.gh to check your school with the index number
Can I change the school after self placing. Do I get a chance to change it again
No please but read more about how to change school here https://pretertiary.com/news/ges-gives-when-first-year-shs-tvet-students-can-changed-school/
I want to change my school placement
Osei, read more about how to change school here https://pretertiary.com/news/ges-gives-when-first-year-shs-tvet-students-can-changed-school/
l want to change my school placement
Read more about how to change school https://pretertiary.com/news/ges-gives-when-first-year-shs-tvet-students-can-changed-school/
I want to change my school to other School
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I want to change my school to other school how can I go about it
You can only change school after one year, read more about it here https://pretertiary.com/news/ges-gives-when-first-year-shs-tvet-students-can-changed-school/
I want to change my child school
You can not change school now, read more here https://pretertiary.com/news/ges-gives-when-first-year-shs-tvet-students-can-changed-school/
Error occurred while submitting your self-placement request. Please try again.
What happen to the portal
I want to change my school placement, please help me
Kelvin, you can not directly change school at CSSPS
Please help me to select school I want to go because there’s no school select me
And I’m trying to do self placement too is not going through
Now I don’t know what to do now
I’m trying to select anlo technically institute or kedzi technical institute
Please help me please myself in any of this schools please
Amuzu, you are to select available schools at the self-placement portal. If you find no schools available visit the District Education Office in your region to report your concern.
I want to change my SHS
You can not change school at the CSSPS portal
Please i won’t to change my school please help me with my i get day school but my mother did not have money to send me to school every day so please help me
Please I want to change day to boarding
You can not change at the CSSPS portal
Please can day change boarding
No please
I want to change my placement for oyoko to Real AMASS
It is not possible to change school Kwaku
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My courses are technical courses but I got a secondary school and I want to change it to a technical school
Sadik, visit the school placement resolution center in your District or region to get your concern addressed
I won’t to change my school Replacement
Donkor, you can not change school placement
How can I change my school
Changing your school is not possible Samuel
Please where can I go in Volta to change my school the school they gave me they are not doing my course
Visit the school placement resolution center at your District Education Office
Please I’ve not been able to submit my self placement request it keep on giving me error and I’ve tried again several times but it’s still not working.
Check your dashboard if you have already been placed
Please I’ve checked but I’ve not been placed in any school yet. And I can’t submit my self placement request either.
In that case, kindly visit the school placement resolution centre at the District Education Office in your region for the issue to be addressed.
Please you must know, you GES is not the one who have to decide what course my son have to go to school and offer or learn.
You can not give my child Agriculture instead of the electrical engineering. also post him to Hohoe which is not part of the school he chose then you said he had school and the shouldn’t be a means to correct such mistake
Please stop this once the child is posted to a school it can not be change. GES, come down for there are problem and parents especially in the villages don’t know what to do
Please we did the self-placement but they said error please help us
Aho, kindly visit the school placement resolution centre (District Education Office) for support
Please I want to change day to boarding, please will I pay before
School placement is free but you can not change from Day to Boarding
So what about those candidates that have been placed but they are saying they should do self placement??
Candidates who already have been placed can not do self-placement
Why an error occurs while submitting your self placement request
Abor bright, check your CSSPS dashboard area if you have already been assigned a school
Please the school that my son got doesn’t do the course that he is going to do they offered him Amasaman Senior High School and he is going to study for Electrical engineering technology Amasaman school does Building and wood.
Theresa, kindly visit the CSSPS resolution centre (District Education Office) for the issue to be addressed
Good evening , pls I mistakenly choose a Grammar SHS for self placement for my ward, I want to change it to Technical school pls help me, I have been to the GNAT hall to no response till now
Anita, unfortunately we can’t help you from here but be rest assured your concerns will be addressed at the GNAT Hall
Can l change mine for me please
Evan sorry we cant help you with that
Do I have a chance of changing my residency status from day to boarding, because I went to the resolution center and they said they are on it but still no show up on the CSSPS portal that it’ has been changed
It takes 3 days for changes to reflect on the CSSPS portal
I want to change my school placement from Mafi Senior High School to Keta Technical (1301014005)
Atsu changing school is not possible this time.
I want to change my school placement
Obed, changing school is not possible this time.
Please I’m Godwin Dawson I, am facing this challenge I did self placement for my junior brother and He got school. But when we got to the school He wasn’t placed at there. Also we visited the CSSPS portal.
He wasn’t placed in any school and also doing another self placement Keep me failing me when submitting the self placement form. So please How could I solve this.
Dawson, kindly visit the CSSPS resolution center at your District Education Office
My school is far from home it a day school
I want to change my school placement
Adom, changing school placement this time is not possible
My sister chose to go to SHS but they gave him Technical institute what should I do
Visit the CSSPS resolution center at the District Education Office for your concerns to be addressed
Please I mistakenly choose St. Daniel Comboni Technical instead of
Combotech, please can I change it?
No please
I want to change my school day to boarding please
Changing residential status is not possible at CSSPS Alfred
I want to change day to Boarding
My school is automatically placed but to far from home and its also day
Kojo visit the CSSPS Resolution center at the District Education Officer for your concern to be addressed.
I can’t find Adventist SHS on the online portal in Ashanti region pls help
Are you doing self-placement Felicia?
I want to change my school to Accra Girls, I had 19
Changing school at CSSPS is not possible
My school is too far away from my house and is also day pls help me
Please I want to change my school from Zion Collage to Keta senior high
Please I want to change my school because where the school is located is a little bit far from where I stay and I also got it day.
I want to change my school
I want to change the school placement because Danso Agyei Senior High is far away from my place so I want change to Asanteman Senior High School
Please I want to change my school please I need your help
Please help me I got category B school but i want to change it to category A school please help me
I want to change my school
I want to change my school
I want to change my school to Yaa Asantewaa Girls SHS I had grade 19
Please I want to change my school
Please change my school to Ghana National
Please I want to change my school
Changing school after enrolment is not possible Poore
Please my school is too far from my village to the school
Please the school I got was not good so please help me change my school
Please I want Kumasi Technical Institute
Please I want to change my status from day to boarding
Please I want to change school
I want to change my school, please to Okuapemman