Know it's real before you enrol.
VerifySchool checks any school or tertiary institution against official government registries — in under a minute, from your phone. Currently covering Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Botswana, with more countries coming.
Why this matters
An unregistered school or tertiary institution isn't just a paperwork problem.
It's a real risk to your child's fees, their certificate, and their year. Here's what registration or accreditation actually protects you from.
Your fees could vanish
Unregistered institutions close far more often, and without warning. There's no regulator to help you recover a term's fees if the doors shut mid-year.
The certificate may not count
A qualification from an unaccredited school can be refused by employers, universities, or exam boards — even if the teaching itself was good.
No one to hold accountable
Registered institutions answer to a real regulator. If something goes wrong at an unregistered one, there's often no authority to appeal to.
The good news: checking takes under a minute, and it's free— for every school or tertiary institution, every time. If a name isn't in the registry, that's worth asking about before you pay anything.
No account needed. Search by name, town, or registration number.
How it works
One search, one answer.
Search
Look up any school or tertiary institution by name, town, or registration number.
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See its registration status straight from the government registry — verified, unverified, or flagged.
Enrol with confidence
Know it's real before you commit fees, uniforms, or a place at a new school.
For parents
Verification is free, permanent, and sourced directly from official government registries. We never paywall the ability to check whether an institution is real.
For regulators
We work from official registry data and flag — never silently resolve — any discrepancies we find, so disputes get human eyes before anything changes.
Verification is free. It always will be.
No account, no catch, no paywall — for any parent, checking any school or tertiary institution, for as long as VerifySchool exists.