Adisadel College | |
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Address | |
P. O. Box 83 Adisadel Village Central Region , Central Region , P.O. Box 83, 00233 Cape Coast Ghana | |
Coordinates | 5°07′14″N1°15′54″W / 5.1206°N 1.2649°W |
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School type | Missionary funding, Public High School All Boys School |
Motto | "Vel Primus Vel Cum Primis" (Either the first or with the first) |
Religious affiliation(s) | Christianity |
Denomination | Anglican |
Patron saint(s) | St. Nicholas |
Established | 4 January 1910 |
Founder | Nathaniel Temple Hamlyn |
Headmaster | Samuel Agudogo |
Staff | 98 teachers |
Faculty | 4 |
Gender | Boys |
Age | 14to 18 |
Enrolment | c. 1500 |
Average class size | 46 |
Language | English |
Campus | 2; Leopoldville & Katanga |
Houses | 10 |
Colour(s) | Black and White |
Slogan | Play Up Santaclausians |
Song | Adisadel On the Hill |
Mascot | Zebra |
Nickname | ADISCO |
Rival | Mfantsipim School |
Newspaper | Owl |
Affiliation | Anglican Church, Ghana |
Alumni | Adisadel Old Boys Association (AOBA) |
Website | http://www.adisadelcollege.net |
Adisadel College, popularly known as "Adisco", is an Anglican boys' boarding school in Cape Coast, Ghana. [1] It was established by Rt. Rev. Nathaniel T Hamlyn in 1910. [2] Adisadel College is one of the oldest secondary schools in Ghana, [3] and 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, [4] internet and news visibility. [5] Recently, they were ranked among the best senior high schools in Ghana [6] per WAEC standards [7] and is the best senior high schools in Cape Coast [8] according to the YEN in 2024.
Adisadel was established in 1910 in a building at Topp Yard, near Christ Church School, which is within the vicinity of Cape Coast Castle. The school began with 29 boys and by 1935, it had expanded to accommodate about 200 pupils. The school buildings were extended in 1950 by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. [9] Student enrolment stood at 545, at the time of the school's Golden Jubilee in 1960. By the time the school celebrated its centenary anniversary in 2010, Adisadel could boast about 1500 boarding students and 93 teachers.
The school's original founder was the Rt. Rev. Nathaniel Temple Hamlyn, a missionary who was then Anglican Bishop of Accra between 1908 and 1910. Hamlyn's ambition was to establish a grammar school to educate the sons of Anglicans in the colony, and also create an educational institution which will serve as a training ground for the clergy.
Adisadel College is the second-oldest secondary school in Ghana after Mfantsipim School, an arch rival which was established by the Methodist Church in 1876. Adisco is also one of the most famous high schools in sub-Saharan Africa. [10]
The school uniform comprises black-and-white striped shirt and black shorts, directly reflecting the primary colours of the college. The distinctive outfit has earned Adisco students the nickname of "zebra boys". Prior to the introduction of this style of uniform in the 1990s, students of the old Form One to Form Five stream wore blue shirts and brown khaki shorts, while those in Sixth Form wore white shirts and brown shorts. Adisadel College was the first secondary school in the history of Ghana to design special cloaks for its prefects – red for the head prefect, blue for the other prefects, and green for the assistants – and the tradition persists till this day. [10]
Name | From | To |
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G. B. Brown BA | 1910 | 1910 |
B. P. Haines MA | 1910 | 1910 |
G. B. Brown BA | 1910 | 1912 |
Hugh Hare MA(Oxon) | 1913 | 1914 |
R. Fisher MA(Cantab) | 1914 | 1918 |
W. Hutton Mensah | 1918 | 1924 |
S. R. S. Nicholas MA DTh(Durham) | 1924 | 1929 |
A. J. Knight MA LLB(Cantab) | 1929 | 1937 |
R. D. Hudson MA(Oxon) | 1938 | 1940 |
W. G. Harward MA(Oxon) | 1947 | 1952 |
A. R. H. Dee MA(Sydney) | 1954 | 1955 |
L. W. Fry MA BSc(Oxon) | 1956 | 1958 |
T. J. Drury MA(Cantab) | 1959 | 1963 |
R. T. Orleans-Pobee BA(Lond) MEd(Springfield) | 1963 | 1974 |
E. A. Jonah BA(Legon) | 1974 | 1982 |
R. K. Ayitey BA(Ed.) | 1982 | 1991 |
J. F. K. Appiah-Cobbold BA PGC. | 1991 | 1995 |
J. E. C. Kitson BA PGCE) | 1995 | 2004 |
H. K. K. Graham BSc(Hons) PGCE | 2005 | 2014 |
William Kusi Yeboah | 2014 | 2019 |
Francis Kwame Agbedanu | 2019 | 2020 |
Samuel Agudogo | 2021 | Present |
Publication: Reminiscences Of Adisadel College 1970-1975 Editors: Dr Paul Mensah; Dr Kwesi Bentum Date: 2017 ISBN 978-9988-2-7402-3 Publisher: Buck Press Ltd, Accra, Ghana.
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