The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released the academic calendar for basic and Senior High Schools (SHS) for the 2024/25 academic year. The new academic year for all SHS will begin on Wednesday, October 30, 2024. Students in their first year at schools with a transitional calendar will conclude their 2023/24 academic year on Monday, October 28, 2024, and will advance to Form Two to immediately continue with the new academic year.

This information is included in a press release from the GES, signed by Mr. Prince Agyeman-Duah, Director of Schools and Instructions Division, and shared with the Ghana News Agency. According to the statement, incoming first-year students for Single Track and Transitional Schools will start classes on Wednesday, October 30, 2024.

Also, all continuing students in Single Track Schools would reopen for the new academic year on Wednesday, October 30, 2024. “This re-opening date aims to ensure that the school calendar starts in September next year and pave the way for our final year students to write their 2025/26 WASSCE in May/June,” the statement noted.

Source: Myjoyonline.com