Top 5 Oldest Senior High Schools In Ghana

In this publication, we will discuss the top 5 Oldest Senior High Schools In Ghana .

In Ghana, the Senior High School is the next stage of education after one has completed Junior High School (JHS). Check out Ghana’s oldest senior high schools.

Games, sports, and quizzes are arranged at the S.H.S. level to bring students together and to determine the competition’s winner.

Oldest Senior High Schools In Ghana

5. ACCRA HIGH SCHOOL

Accra High School also known as “AHISCO” is a mixed school(boys and girls) with a uniform of black and white. The school is located at Accra, Ghana and was founded by Rev. James Thomas Robert and it is also the oldest school in Greater Accra but the fifth oldest school in Ghana. It was established in the year 1923.

4. ADISADEL COLLEGE

Adisadel college popularly known as “ADISCO” is an Anglican boys boarding school in Cape Coast, Ghana. The institution was the first school in Ghana to establish a cadet corps and apart from it establishment of a cadet corps, it is also the fourth oldest school in Ghana after GHANA SEC. TECH. SCHOOL. It was established in the year 1910.

3. Ghana Sec.Tech. School

Ghana Secondary Technical School is a science and technology-oriented high school located at Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. The school is the third oldest school in Ghana after Wesley Girls High School since it was also established in the year 1909.

2. WESLEY GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL

Wesley Girls High School also known as ”wey gey hey” is a single-sex school(Girls school). The school is located at Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana and was started years ago by the wife of a Methodist minister with 25 girls. After Mfantsipim school, the second oldest school is the Wesley Girls High School since it was established in the year 1884.

1. MFANTSIPIM SCHOOL

Mfantsipim which have been known to be one of the best senior high schools is an all boys boarding secondary school at Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana. Many people or students know Mfantsipim to be one of the secondary schools in Ghana that are good interms of sports and academics but do not actually know the school is the first oldest school in Ghana nor to talk of they knowing the year it was established. The institution was established in the year 1876 which makes it the first oldest school because when you compare all the remaining secondary school’s years of establishment to Mfantsipim, it is nowhere near.