Presec–Legon Maintains Top Spot as EN Analytics Unveils 2025 NSMQ Top 100 Senior High School Rankings
EN Analytics and Consulting Limited has released its 2025 Top 100 Senior High School (SHS) rankings for the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ), reaffirming the list as the authoritative benchmark for assessing academic competitiveness among secondary schools in Ghana.
The rankings, which remain valid until the conclusion of the 2026 NSMQ competition, are based on performance data drawn from 260 senior high schools across all sixteen regions. According to EN Analytics, the methodology blends current-year outcomes with historical performance, offering a cumulative assessment of schools’ consistency and depth in science and mathematics education.
Presec–Legon retained its position as the top-ranked school nationally for the third consecutive year, despite exiting the 2025 competition at the quarter-final stage. The school accumulated 715 points, underscoring the weight of sustained historical performance in the ranking model. Prempeh College followed in second place with 645 points, while Mfantsipim School climbed to third with 615 points after securing back-to-back NSMQ titles in 2024 and 2025.
Adisadel College placed fourth, closely trailed by Opoku Ware School in fifth position. The top ten was completed by Keta Senior High Technical School (KETASCO), St. Peter’s SHS, Nkwatia, St. Augustine’s College, Accra Academy, and St. Thomas Aquinas SHS, Accra.
Beyond the headline rankings, the 2025 results highlighted notable structural shifts. Two Category C schools—Amaniampong SHS and Mankranso SHS—reached the semi-final stage of the competition, marking a first in NSMQ history and reinforcing arguments that targeted preparation can narrow long-standing resource gaps.
Regionally, the Ashanti Region continued to dominate representation, placing 22 schools within the national Top 100, followed by the Eastern Region with 19 schools. In the Central Region, Mfantsipim School overtook Adisadel College to emerge as the highest-ranked school in the region, reflecting its recent competitive momentum.
EN Analytics explained that a school’s ranking is determined by four parameters: the final stage reached at the national level in the current year, placement in the school’s final contest, the Ghana Education Service category of the school, and historical NSMQ performance between 2013 and 2024. Competition points account for about 95.6% of total scores, with category points applied to compensate for infrastructure disparities among non-Category A schools.
The NSMQ remains one of Ghana’s most respected academic platforms, often used by parents and students as a proxy for evaluating institutional strength in science, mathematics, and analytical thinking. EN Analytics noted that the rankings are designed not merely to reward annual success, but to reflect sustained academic excellence over time.
