The Senior High School (SHS) 1, 2 and 3 re-opening and vacation date earlier for the 2025/2026 academic year has been announced.
Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES), wishes to inform staff, parents, students, and the general public that SHS academic calendar for the 2025/2026 academic year has been released.
SHS Re-Opening and Vacation Date 2025/2026
Below is the breakdown of the reopening date for Form 3, 2, and 1 students in Senior High Schools (SHSs).
Form 3 (Final Year Students)
- First Term: 27th October 2025 – 13th February 2026 (14 weeks)
- Break: 20th December 2025 – 4th January 2026
- Second Term: 14th February – 21st June 2026 (18 weeks)
- Easter Break: 1st April – 8th April 2026
- WASSCE Period: 20th April – 20th June 2026
This schedule gives final-year students ample time for preparation and revision before sitting for WASSCE.
Form 2
- First Term: 5th January – 17th April 2026 (15 weeks)
- Includes 5 weeks online/external learning from 16th March – 17th April 2026
- Vacation: 18th April – 17th May 2026
- Second Term: 18th May – 4th September 2026 (16 weeks)
This group enjoys a mid-term break that allows them to continue learning remotely before resuming onsite classes.
Form 1 (New Students)
- First Term: 18th October 2025 – 30th January 2026 (13 weeks: 9 weeks onsite + 4 weeks online)
- Christmas Break: 20th December 2025 – 4th January 2026
- Break: 31st January – 15th March 2026
- Second Term: 16th March – 12th June 2026 (13 weeks: 9 weeks onsite + 4 weeks online)
- Break: 13th June – 2nd July 2026
- Third Term: 3rd July – 4th September 2026 (9 weeks)
This structured timetable helps first-year students smoothly integrate into the double-track system while balancing onsite and online learning.
Key Notes (NB):
- Reopening Weeks:
- SHS 1: 18th – 20th October 2025
- SHS 3: 27th – 29th October 2025
- SHS 2: 5th – 7th January 2026
- Travel & Holiday Periods:
- Travel: 20th – 22nd December 2025
- Christmas Break: 20th December 2025 – 4th January 2026
- Easter Break: 1st – 8th April 2026
- WASSCE: Runs from 20th April – 20th June 2026
- Proposed Start of 2026/2027 Academic Year: 11th September 2026
Additionally, Heads of SHS are to as a matter of urgency communicate to all parents about the designated tracks for their wards to enable them plan accordingly.
99 comments
Ok pls thanks for reopening of school for SHS student pls I hear that we will go to school on 4th April is that true
Please whea are the form 1 gold track going to school
10th
Please when are the form 1 gold trackers reopening school
We will go on de 18th
When will form 1 green truck will go back to school
When will form 1 green truck will go back to school
Please when will form 1 Gold track reopen school please GES
When will the form one gold students go back to school
When are the form one gold track going back to school
Also the way the track is going it doesnt promote our academic performace at all
18th june
Is a lie ,please is not true
Is true it doesn’t help at all
18th June is correct
Is true
when is SHS 1 gold truck resuming school
When is the green track form 2 green vacating
When will the shs 1 gold track resume school
When are the Form one gold track students coming back to school? Because I have been hearing some rumours they’ll go on 18th June, 2021.
Yeah please when
I want to know the exact date
Are the day students going to the boarding house
Will the form 3s be going with the form 2s gold track?
When are we the gold track going to school?Is it 18th January or 10th March? Please clarify this confused
that’s the same thing am also searching for
Are the day students going to the boarding house
GES please do them a favour and change the date or add some days for them to stay in school.
Why the minister of education said gold student to stay in the house please Nana say something why gold student are we not part of the school we are going we will not vote any free education again
Please there are some rumors going about that form two gold will be going with the form one on 10th March 2021, please is it true??
Pls and pls again mr president we the gold truck students are beging wai, we need to go to school and something ehh pls
When will form 2 gold open school?
am really confused whether the form 1 gold will e going to school on january or march
How comes Nana , the shs2gold students are crying
Ah is it true that shs2 gold track will resume on March 10th
Ah, the form2 gold track didn’t learn anything so how come the green track and the form3 will be going to school and we will still stay at home. Meanwhile the form3 just returned from school. We have to stop schooling because the government is slowing down our life .
when will the SHS 2 report to school
18th January