Educational Infrastructure

The District currently has a total basic school infrastructure of 241 comprising of 159 publicly owned and 82 private schools. Of the 241 schools in the district, 86 are Nursery Schools, 86 primary schools, 66 Junior Secondary Schools, 3 Senior Secondary schools, 1 Vocational institute and 1 tertiary institution. Inadequate school infrastructure especially dormitory blocks for both male and female students, inadequate classroom blocks, science laboratories and furniture still remain a challenges faced by the senior high schools. Table 1.4 summarizes the number and level of educational facilities in the District.

Table 1.4: School Infrastructures in the District

Source: Asutifi North District Education Office, 2021

Educational Enrolment level in the District

Basic school enrolments in schools with exception of the 2018/2019 academic year have witnessed significant growth since 2017. It is estimated that about 75% of children of school going age are actually in schools. Table 1.5 shows the gross enrolment figures for both public and private schools at the basic and SSS levels in the District.

Table 1.5: School Enrolment by Levels (2017 – 2019)

Sources: Asutifi North District Education Office, Kenyasi, 2021

Teacher Availability and Quality

Teacher population at the basic schools including senior high level is favourable considering the pupil teacher ratio recorded in all categories of schools. Table 1.6 indicates the number and quality of teachers in public and private schools in the District.

Table 1.6: Number and level of Teachers

Sources: Asutifi North District Education Office, 2021

School Performance

Educational performance at the basic level has not been good as only 34% of the candidates that sat for the BECE were able to pass for placement into SHS. Out of 1,300 pupils presented for the 2018/19 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), only 446 pupils scored between aggregates six (6) and thirty (30), representing only 34%. This figure though not encouraging, but showed an improvement of 11% over the 2018. This poor performance needs to be investigated and addressed properly. Table1.7 illustrate BECE performance from 2017 to 2020.

Table 1.7: BECE performance from 2017 to 2020

Source: Asutifi North District Education Office, 2021

Ghana School Feeding Programme

A total of 18 schools made up 6558 pupils area currently benefiting from the programme. This represents an increase of 100% of the number of schools and over 250% of pupils benefitting to the 2017 figures. Untimely release of the feeding grants to the cooks is one of the major challenges. Efforts need to be made to increase the number of beneficiary schools as it has the potential to increase enrolments levels.