Basic education in Kano State is free and compulsory. Find a school, enrol a child, check an examination result, apply for a scholarship or register a private school — online, at any hour, from anywhere in the State.
Ten services, each available end to end without a visit to the Secretariat.
4800
Schools on the register
Across the eight boards and 44 LGAs
3.4m
Pupils enrolled
Session 2025/2026, boys and girls
78000
Teachers in post
Teaching and non-teaching establishment
44
LGA education offices
One in every local government area
Every school, learning centre and library in Kano State belongs to exactly one board, and every board answers to the Ministry for policy, budget and standards.
Primary 1 to JSS 3 — the whole of basic education in Kano State.
SS 1 to SS 3 — every public senior secondary school in the State.
Science secondary schools, technical colleges and vocational centres.
Tsangaya, integrated Islamiyyah and non-integrated Islamiyyah schools.
Private, community and voluntary (mission) schools.
Every public library in Kano State.
Non-formal, adult and continuing education.
The 1 % Education Trust Fund, SPPI and all capital projects.
From counting a school in the annual census to handing a certificate to the pupil who left it, every stage is recorded in one system, and every stage produces a number the public can check.
The Annual School Census enumerates every school in the State with its coordinates, its enrolment by sex, its staff and the condition of its classrooms.
A school is approved, licensed and given a school code in the form KN/MUN/PRI/0184. Nothing outside the register is a school in law.
A child is admitted with an admission number, into a named class, in a named school, with a guardian on record and an LGA of origin.
Teachers are registered with TRCN, posted to a board, deployed to a school and returned in the establishment against a grade level.
Three terms a session, against a published curriculum, with continuous assessment recorded term by term for every subject taken.
Continuous assessment at 40 per cent and examination at 60 per cent, then the external series: Common Entrance, BECE, the Qualifying Examination, WASSCE and NECO.
Results, statements of result, certificates and transcripts, issued against an examination number and verifiable by anyone at the result checker.
Enrolment, gender parity, teacher supply, infrastructure, budget and examination outcomes, published as open data anyone can reproduce.
Each page sets out who it applies to, what it costs, how long it takes, the documents required and what happens if you do nothing.
Free · instant
Look up a BECE, WASSCE, SSCE or Qualifying Examination result by examination number.
StartFree · same term
Enrol a child into Primary 1, JSS 1 or SS 1 in a public school anywhere in the State.
Start₦150,000 · 60 days
New approval, renewal, change of proprietorship, change of name or upgrade of level.
StartFree · 5 working days
Move a pupil between schools, within Kano State or out of it, with the record intact.
StartTRCN · 3-year cycle
Register as a teacher, renew a licence and record continuing professional development.
StartAnnual cycle
State and sponsored awards for pupils and students, from Primary through tertiary study.
StartTermly · needs-based
The termly needs-based award for pupils in public senior secondary and technical schools.
StartFree · termly cycle
How a public school requisitions textbooks, exercise books, furniture and consumables.
Start12 criteria · 5 verdicts
Quality assurance visits, how a school prepares, and how a verdict is published and appealed.
StartEnrolment has risen from 2.50 million in 2019/2020 to 3.40 million in 2025/2026. Over the same period the gender parity index moved from 0.68 to 0.9 — the single indicator the Ministry is watched on hardest.
All levels, all boards, as returned in the Annual School Census.
Girls per boy enrolled. Parity is 1.00; the gap is widest where a level costs a household most.
0.9
Gender parity index
82.4%
Primary 6 to JSS 1 transition
44:1
Pupil–teacher ratio
₦168.4B
Education budget, 2026
Seven programmes carry the weight of Kano's education policy. Each publishes what it costs, who it reaches and what has changed.
No fee, no levy and no uniform charge for any pupil in a public basic school in Kano State, from Primary 1 through JSS 3.
2180k reached · since 2005
Conditional cash transfers, female teacher recruitment, separate sanitation and a back-to-school drive for girls who left at transition.
318k reached · since 2016
Bringing Tsangaya learners into a curriculum that keeps Qur'anic study intact and adds literacy, numeracy, a trade, feeding and health screening.
486k reached · since 2019
Basic literacy, post-literacy and vocational classes in 30 centres and 640 community circles, taught in Hausa and English.
74k reached · since 1992
Resumption dates, examination notices, programme launches, project commissionings and appointments.
Circular
14 Aug 2026
The Permanent Secretary has circularised the resumption date for the Second Term of the 2025/2026 session. All public, private and Islamiyyah schools resume on the same day.
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Examinations
9 Aug 2026
Head teachers must submit candidate entries through the school portal before the deadline. Late entry is not accepted, and no centre may charge above the ₦3,500 entry fee.
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Finance
2 Aug 2026
The first tranche of the session capitation grant has been released to every public basic school in the State, at between ₦2,000 and ₦5,000 per pupil per session.
Read moreDevelopment partners
Ten partners work alongside the Ministry on school construction, learning outcomes, girls' education and out-of-school children.
Basic education is free and compulsory. Every school is on one register, every result carries an examination number, and every figure on this site can be reproduced from the published data.
info@moe.kn.gov.ng • Education hotline 0800 MOE KANO • Ministry of Education, Audu Bako Secretariat, Kano, Kano State, Nigeria