In 2021, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) office in Liberia reported that 40,977 candidates sat the WASSCE for school candidates nationwide.

From those 2021 exams:

  • The results of 13,454 candidates were withheld , representing 32.83% of all candidates. These were linked to alleged exam malpractices or unreliable continuous assessment scores submitted by their schools.

However, WAEC’s official communication for 2021 focuses on candidates , not a clear count of “how many schools failed WASSCE” as institutions. What we do know at the school level is that 73 schools had candidates whose entire results were withheld in 2021 due to alleged malpractice and related issues. This is sometimes interpreted in public discussions as those schools effectively “failing” the exam cycle because their candidates’ results could not be released.

So, if your question “how many schools fail WASSCE in Liberia 2021” is about schools implicated in serious exam problems, the closest concrete figure from official 2021 data is:

  • 73 schools whose candidates’ WASSCE results (13,454 candidates) were withheld in 2021.

If you instead mean “how many schools had zero passes” or “how many schools performed below a certain threshold,” that level of breakdown is not clearly published in the accessible 2021 reports, so a precise “number of schools that failed” in that performance sense cannot be reliably stated from the available data.

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