If your child's school uses ZamSkools, you can check their fees, exam results and attendance from any phone — no smartphone, no internet, no app, no data bundle. Just dial a short code and read the answer on screen.
Dial this from any phone to open the ZamSkools parent menu
Dial *388*11# from any phone, then follow the on-screen menu to check your child's school fees, exam results or attendance. It works on MTN, Airtel and Zamtel, on basic phones and smartphones alike, with no internet and no app. Your child's school must use ZamSkools and have entered the information for it to appear.
Under two minutes, on any phone in your hand right now.
Open your phone's dialler, type *388*11# and press call. A text menu appears on screen — nothing to download, no internet needed.
Reply with the number next to what you want — fees, results or attendance — and press send.
Follow the prompts to select or confirm your child, so you see the right pupil's information.
Your child's fee balance, results or attendance shows on screen in seconds. Dial again any time for the latest.
What parents ask most about *388*11#.
The code is *388*11#. Dial it from any phone to check your child's school fees, exam results and attendance.
No. USSD works on any phone — including basic feature phones — with no internet, no data bundle and no app to install.
Yes — the *388*11# service is designed to work across Zambian mobile networks.
Your child's school must use ZamSkools and have entered the fees, results or attendance for it to show. If nothing appears, ask the school whether they are on ZamSkools and have published the information.
USSD is how ZamSkools reaches the majority of Zambian parents who do not have smartphones. A school using ZamSkools can send results by SMS and let every parent check fees, results and attendance on *388*11# — so no family is left out for want of a data bundle.
Register your school on ZamSkools — free for up to 100 pupils — and give every parent fee, result and attendance access on *388*11#.