About us
Helping every parent make better education decisions.
Our mission
Choosing a school in Ghana has always run on word of mouth — a neighbour's recommendation, a signboard on the roadside, a cousin's opinion. Parents make one of the biggest financial and emotional decisions of family life with almost no reliable information: no verified fees, no independent quality measure, no honest record of other parents' experiences.
SchoolGuide Ghana exists to change that. We bring together verified school profiles, moderated reviews from real parents, and the independent Ghana School Quality Index (GSQI) — so any family, in any of Ghana's 16 regions, can compare schools on facts before they compare them on feelings.
The GSQI story
The Ghana School Quality Index began with a simple frustration: league tables only measured exam results, and exam results only tell part of the story. A school can drill pupils to pass the BECE while failing them on safety, creativity and wellbeing — and a school with modest results can be transforming lives in a community others have written off.
So we built a broader measure. Working with Ghanaian educators, school-improvement specialists and hundreds of parents, we defined ten categories that capture what a good school actually is — academic and teaching quality, yes, but also leadership, student welfare, facilities, parent satisfaction, value for money, innovation, community trust and admissions transparency. Each is scored on documented evidence and weighted openly into a single 100-point score.
One rule was non-negotiable from day one: the score can never be bought. Schools pay us for software — profile tools, enquiry management, analytics. They cannot pay us for a single point of GSQI. That firewall is the foundation everything else stands on.
What we stand for
Independence above all
Quality scores are never for sale. Our assessment team is walled off from every commercial decision, and we publish the rules we score by.
Radical transparency
Every GSQI score shows its evidence — inspection dates, data sources and parent survey counts. Fee ranges, category weights and moderation rules are public.
Parents first
We build for the mother in Adenta comparing three schools on a Sunday night. If a feature doesn't help her decide better, we don't ship it.
Fair to every school
A small community school and a premium international school are judged by the same framework. Great teaching wins — not great marketing budgets.
Community-built trust
Reviews come from real parents, alumni and students, moderated by humans. Schools respond in the open — never behind closed doors.
Ghana-rooted
BECE, WASSCE, CSSPS, NaSIA, PTA dues — we speak the language of Ghanaian schooling because we live it, from Accra to Wa.
Join us — as a parent or a school.
Search the directory, write an honest review, or claim your school's profile. Every contribution makes the picture clearer for the next family.