GES Releases 2024/2025 Academic Calendar For Basic Schools

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has officially released the 2024/2025 academic calendar for Basic Schools.

As already announced, Basic Schools, which consists of Kindergarten (KG), primary and junior high school (JHS) pupils and students will officially begin the 2024/2025 academic year on Tuesday, 10th September, 2024. Pupils will spend a total of 15 weeks in school. The term will come to an end on 18th December, 2024. Vacation starts the next day (19th December, 2024).

The second term of the academic year will resume on 7th January, 2025. Pupils will be in school till Wednesday, 16th, April, 2025. Vacation will start on 17th April, 2025. This means the total number of weeks for term two is also 15 weeks.

Schools will again reopen for the third term on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, until July 24, 2025, to end the academic year. Here, pupils will spend a total of 12 weeks in school in terms 3.

The Academic Calendar for Senior High Schools is yet to be released. However, there are plans underway to restore the second cycle calendar to the pre-COVID era.

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During 2021 and 2022, schools in Ghana adjusted their academic calendar year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This comes following the closure of educational institutions in Ghana.

However, once schools were suspended in March 2020 in a bid to contain the disease.

However in the year 2023 GES announced that term will return to the original Academic calendar. In a letter signed by the deputy GES, Quality and Access Dr Kwabena Bempah Tandoh and all other regional directors, the New academic year commences for Basic Schools from October 03, 2023. Thus the end term one and the beginning of the 2023/2024 ACADEMIC YEAR.

A number of stakeholders including teachers, parents, and school administrators were pleased with returning to the original schedule. They thought that the return September to July which was prior the COVID period was the best in terms of management of the calender and activities. They preferred to have the ordinary calendar as opposed to the temporary one which was in operation during the time of the pandemic.