Top 10 Oldest Senior High Schools in Central Region

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Myshsrank.com presents the Top 10 Oldest Senior High Schools in Central Region

School

Year Etablished.

AGE (2020)

Mfantsipim School

1876

144

Wesley Girls' High School

1884

136

Adisadel College

1910

110

St. Augustine's College

1930

90

Aggrey Memorial SHS

1940

80

Holy Child School

1946

74

Ghana National College

1948

72

Winneba SHS

1949

71

Apam SHS

1953

67

Mfantsiman Girls' Shs

1960

60

 

 

  • Mfantsipim School

Mfantsipim is an all-boys boarding secondary school in Cape Coast, Ghana, established by the Methodist Church in 1876 to foster intellectual, moral, and spiritual growth on the then Gold Coast. Its founding name was Wesleyan High School and the first headmaster was James Picot, a French scholar, who was only 18 years old on his appointment.

Mfantsipim is nicknamed "The School" by its old boys for the fact that several other schools in Ghana such as Prempeh College were born out of it, as these schools were started with students from Mfantsipim.

 

  • Wesley Girls' High School

Wesley Girls' High School was ranked 68th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumnae, school profile, internet and news visibility.

They Won the Sprite Ball Championship in 2008 and 2016

 

  • Adisadel College

Adisadel College, popularly known as "ADISCO", is an Anglican boys' boarding school in Cape Coast, Ghana.

Adisadel College was ranked 10th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based on quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, internet and news visibility.

Adisadel was established in 1910 in a building at Topp Yard, near Christ Church School which is within the vicinity of Cape Coast Castle. It began with 29 boys, but by 1935, it had expanded to accommodate about 200 pupils. The school buildings were extended in 1950 by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. Student enrolment stood at 545, at the time of the school's Golden Jubilee in 1960. There were over 1500 boarding students and 93 teachers when the school celebrated its centenary anniversary in 2010.

 

  • St. Augustine's College

St. Augustine’s College is an all-male academic institution in Cape Coast, Ghana. The school started at Amissano, a village near Elmina, in 1930. The Catholic institution was established to serve as a training college and seminary. The school was named after St. Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430 AD). The motto of the college is Omnia Vincit Labor, meaning "Perseverance conquers All".The school has a total of 11 houses.

On 6 August 1933, the Catholic Church and the Bishop of Cape Coast Vicariate Monsignor W. T. Porter felt the need to have a separate Catholic school and Cape Coast was found to be the most suitable location. A commemorative foundation stone was laid in late 1935 at the present site. Fr. Maurice B. Kelly, the Dean of the Training College at Amissano which is now St. Teresa’s Seminary, Amisano, became the first Head Dean or Headmaster.

 

  • Aggrey Memorial SHS

Aggrey Memorial A.M.E. Zion senior high School is a publicly supported Coeducational senior high school in Cape Coast, Ghana. It provides students in forms 1 through 4 a rigorous preparatory education with the aim of passing the WASSCE. The school has distinguished itself as a leading secondary school by placing a high premium on educating students in the Arts and Sciences.

 

  • Holy Child School

Holy Child School, also known as Angel's Hill, is a female second-cycle institution in Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana

Holy Child School also produced the best overall student,Jochebed Adwoa Sutherland and the second best overall student, Audrey Emefa Awuttey for the 2017 West African Senior School Examination, WASSCE.

The School has always prided itself in providing holistic education for females so that they may strive to achieve higher heights and become "Women of Substance". The school motto is "Facta Non Verba" which simply means Actions Not Words. The present headmistress of the school is Mrs. Anastasia Thomford Okyere. Their colours are yellow and brown.

 

  • Ghana National College

It was founded on 20 July 1948, staffed by dismissed teachers from St Augustine's College and Mfantsipim School. The college was founded by the first Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah using his own funds, for eight students who had been expelled by the British colonial administration from St Augustine's College. The expulsion resulted from a protest march, held in solidarity with Nkrumah, who was then imprisoned.

 

  • Apam SHS

Apam Secondary School, in the Zone B District of the Central region of Ghana, was established in 1953 at Paado's plains, a suburb of Apam (a coastal town in the area). The school had a very humble beginning under a cocoa shed and oak trees. It started under the management of Rev. deGraft-Johnson as a day school with Mr. C.S Arthur Hesse as the only teacher.

In 1960, the school relocated to its present site, Mbofra mfa Adwen, with a very grand and impressive opening ceremony performed by Lord Listowel, the last Governor of the then Gold Coast, now Ghana.

The development of the school that led to the adoption of the name Great Apass was achieved under the leadership and aegis of the late Dr. Peter Augustus Owiredu otherwise known as PAO. Dr. P.A Owiredu took over as the headmaster from Rev. degraft-Johnson in 1959 to 1981

 

  • Mfantsiman Girls' SHS

Mfantsiman Girls' Secondary School is an all girls second cycle institution in Saltpond in the Central Region of Ghana. The school was founded in 1960 by Kwame Nkrumah, originally under the name Saltpond Girls' Secondary School

 

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Contributor: myshsrank Source: Johnny Doe
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