Top 10 oldest senior high schools in Northern Region

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Myshsrank.com presents the Top 10 oldest senior high schools in Northern Region

 

SCHOOL NAME

YEAR

AGE

TAMALE SHS

1951

69

ST. CHARLES MINOR SEM. SHS

1953

67

GHANA SHS, TAMALE

1960

60

YENDI SHS

1970

50

NORTHERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

1972

48

SALAGA SHS

1976

44

BOLE SHS

1979

41

KALPOHIN SHS

1990

30

PONG TAMALE SHS

1991

29

VITTING SHS

1991

29

 

 

  • TAMALE SHS

Tamale Senior High School (TAMASCO) is a Public Senior High established in 1951. It is located in the newly created Sagnerigu District and close to the Northern Regional Education Office (Education Ridge). It is the first Second Cycle institution in Northern Ghana.

  • ST. CHARLES MINOR SEM. SHS

St. Charles Minor Seminary SHS is Catholic institution which was set up with the aim of training Priests and religious for the Church while at the same time churning our responsible people for the country and the worldCharles Minor Seminary was first opened in 1953 at Wiaga in the Builsa District of the Upper East Region, by the Missionary of Africa (White Fathers).

 

  • GHANA SHS, TAMALE

Originally called Ghana College, the school was established in 1960 by the Government of Ghana, under Kwame Nkrumah, as one of the Ghana Education Trust Schools It has a student population of about 2,800, and is the second largest school in the region after Tamale Senior High School (Tamasco) The first headmaster of the school was Kenneth Luther Purser, a Jamaican. Master Abu Kassim Tahidu from Kwame Danso in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana was the first senior prefect.

 

  • YENDI SHS

Yendi Senior High School is coeducational secondary school in Yendi in the Northern Region of Ghana. As of 2016, the school had a girls' dormitory with 500 students. In 2018, Alhaji Faruok Aliu Mahama donated GHc 10,000.00 to the school for a water project.

The Jubilee Park at the school was used in January 2019 for part of the coronation process for Yaa Naa Abubakari Mahama as king of Dagbon.

 

  • NORTHERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Northern School of Business Senior High is among the publicly recognized Senior High Schools in Ghana. It is located at Tamale, the capital of Northern Region.

 

  • SALAGA SHS

Salaga Senior High School is among the publicly recognized Senior High Schools in Ghana. It is located at Salaga in the East Gonja District of the Savannah Region.

 

  • KALPOHIN SHS

The school was born out of the 1987 Educational Reform Programme as one of the many established schools to absorb the increasing number of students from Junior High School.

 

  • VITTING SHS

The school started as a Middle School, then changed to Experimental Junior Secondary School till 1990. In 1991 it was changed again to a Senior High Technical School. it is located along Tamale Teaching Hospital road.

 

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