Applications for a school place must be made via filling our admission forms either online or in person at the school office. The closing date for receipt of applications for places starting in September 2021 is open for this premier term. Applications should be made online at www.youngachievers.com.gh/admissions or by downloading and completing the paper ‘Primary School Admissions 2021’ form on the website and submitting them at the school office.

If you do not have internet access, you can request a form by calling 233 240936791. Please apply online or by paper and do not do both.

The Published Admission Number is 30. The school will accordingly admit 30 each year to the Reception classes if sufficient applications are received. All applicants will be admitted if fewer than 30 apply. There is no guarantee of a place for children living in the priority admission area. In the event of oversubscription places will be allocated using the following criteria in the order given:

Distance will be used to prioritise applications within and between categories 1 to 4. Straight line distance will be used for calculations. All straight-line distances are calculated electronically by YAMS using location data provided by the Ghana Post Office. The data is used to plot the co-ordinates of each individual property and school and provides the address points between which the straight-line distance is measured. Distances are reported in miles to three decimal places in the first instance.

In the unlikely event of two applicants with an identical distance competing for a single place at a school the place will be offered to one applicant on the basis of lots drawn by a member of the school staff not associated with admissions, with the exception of twins, triplets etc.

All applicants refused a place have a right of appeal to an independent appeal panel constituted and operated in accordance with the School Admission Appeals. Appellants should contact the Headteacher, Young Achievers Primary School, P.O. Box AO442 Abosey-Okai Accra or by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for further information about appeals. Appeals must be lodged within 20 days of the date of the notification letter.

A relevant sibling is a child who has a brother, sister, adopted brother or sister or stepbrother or stepsister living in the same family unit, in the same family household and address, who attends the preferred school in any year group excluding the final year. Biological siblings who attend the preferred school in any year group excluding the final year will also be treated as siblings, irrespective of place of residence. Children residing in the same household as part of an extended family, such as cousins, will not be treated as siblings.

If the last child to be offered a place is a twin and their sibling cannot be offered initially, YAMS will ensure both twins are offered a place. In the case of triplets or other multiple births, if the majority of children can be offered a place initially, YAMS will offer places to the remaining child(ren). For example, if two triplets can be offered a place, the remaining child will also receive an offer of a place.

Where the school is over-subscribed, YAMS will operate a waiting list and it will be open to any parent to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed on the waiting list, following an unsuccessful application. Children’s position on the waiting list will be determined solely in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. Where places become vacant they will be allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. The waiting list will be reordered in accordance with the oversubscription criteria whenever anyone is added to or leaves it.

YAMS policy is that children born on and between 1 September and 31 August would normally commence primary school in Reception in the academic year beginning in September.

As required by our terms, YAMS will provide for the full-time admission of all children offered a place in the Reception year group from the September following their fourth birthday.

Parents can request that the date their child is admitted to school is deferred until later in the school year or until the child reaches compulsory school age in the school year. The law does not require a child to start school until the start of the term following their fifth birthday. Compulsory school age is reached at that point. Where entry is deferred, the school will hold the place for that child and not offer it to another child. The parent would not however be able to defer entry beyond the beginning of the term after the child’s fifth birthday, nor beyond the academic year for which the original application was accepted.

Where parents wish to enrol their children to join the junior primary other than reception, the wards will have to take a short literacy and numeracy test to ascertain their level as a prelude to placing them in the right class according to their ability.

YAMS will decide whether the application for a Reception place will be accepted or whether it will be treated as an application for a Year 1 place, the child’s normal age appropriate, cohort. If the application for a Reception place is not accepted this does not, in itself, constitute a refusal of a place and there is no right to an independent statutory appeal.