The Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education today launches the public EMIS portal at emis.gov.school.edu.sl, including the first auto-generated national Annual Fact Sheet.

The Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) today launches the public face of Sierra Leone's National Education Management Information System at emis.gov.school.edu.sl.

For the first time, every citizen in Sierra Leone can view live, aggregate education statistics that previously sat behind the closed walls of the school management network. The portal launches with five surfaces:

  • A searchable Schools Directory of every active school across all sixteen districts.
  • Interactive Visuals showing enrolment by district, gender-parity trends, pupil-teacher ratios, and NSI issuance.
  • An interactive School Map powered by OpenStreetMap.
  • A citizen-facing NSI Verification tool — type any National Student Identifier and confirm it is genuine.
  • A Downloads catalogue including the auto-generated Annual Fact Sheet (PDF) and machine-readable open-data CSVs.

A national identifier built to last

At the centre of the system is the National Student Identifier (NSI) — a permanent, lifetime number issued to every learner at the point of first admission. The NSI travels with the student from nursery through university, across school transfers, and into the workforce. Employers, scholarship boards, banks, and parents can confirm any NSI's validity at the new Verify NSI page.

The NSI is the single most important record we maintain. Every reform we are building on top of it — fee payments, attendance, transcripts — depends on getting this one identifier right and keeping it stable for the long term.

Open data by default

The Ministry is committed to publishing as much aggregate data as can be released safely. The first three open-data artefacts are live today:

  1. Annual Fact Sheet — a national one-pager generated live from the database.
  2. Schools list (CSV) — one row per active school with code, name, district, ownership, enrolment, and staffing.
  3. Enrolment by district (CSV) — district × gender totals.

More datasets — teacher deployment, exam results, infrastructure indicators — will follow in subsequent releases.

What's next

The September 2026 release will extend the portal to all schools nationally, alongside the public roll-out of the Annual School Census, exam-results overlays, and district-level profile pages. We welcome feedback from journalists, researchers, and partners as the platform matures.