Gender disparity continues as an unsolved concern for decades in Ghana particularly in rural Ghana, which has
a bigger problem for children not completing the full cycle of basic education, especially for the girl child. This
paper therefore critically reviews the gender characteristics of basic school dropout concerning issues of gender
equity in the educational system of rural Ghana. The study was based on both qualitative and quantitative
approaches to data collection which include observation, individual interview, focus group interview
(discussion) and questionnaire with children as primary respondents followed by head teachers and education
administrators. The study found out that most of the dropout students in the district were females and males
form the minority group as buttressed by the field survey. The study further revealed that there is a relatively
higher percentage of dropouts among girls than boys especially after grade 4. The accompanying proposals
were made on the premise of those discoveries and conclusion; Poverty Reduction Initiatives, likewise, the
District Education Directorate in conjunction with different partners of instruction ought to proceed with the
customary battles in the different groups to teach guardians, watchmen and the whole groups to develop the
consciousness of the requirement for young lady tyke training and education. Furthermore, national education
policies and dropout Prevention Project must be introduced by the government since most of the dropouts
happen to be from state schools, national policy on re-admission for teenage mothers must also be introduced
and follow-up programmes should be arranged to bring back dropouts.