2023 National Standardized Test: GES Requests Data from Public and Private Schools

The Ghana Education Service in a letter signed by the Ag. Director of schools and Instructions Division, Prince C. Agyemang-Duah (MR) is requesting all public and private schools across the country to submit data of students.

The National Standardized Test is organized for learners in basic 2 and 4 to test their abilities on Numeracy and Literacy.

Body of letter on the NST by GES

Management of the Ghana Education Service is compiling data on this year’s candidates for the National Standardized Test (NST)

To this end, Management requires the most current enrolment data of all primary two (2) and primary four (4) learners from both public and private Basic Schools across all sixteen (16) regions in the country. The enrolment data being sought should be in Excel format, and by District, Circuit and sex.

By a copy of this letter, you are kindly requested to inform all Metro/Municipal/District Directors of Education to compile the data according to the template provided and send it to their regional Directors who are to collate and submit the final data to the email address: schoolsandinstructions@ges.gov.gh by 5:00pm, Thursday, 19^th October, 2023.

The letter indicated that, under no circumstance should individual schools or districts submit their data directly to the email address.

Download the Data Collection Form Here