Apam Senior High School

Apam Senior High School
Location
Apam Central Region Apam 233 Ghana
Coordinates	5°31′16″N0°25′07″W / 5.521086°N 0.418682°W / 5.521086; -0.418682
Information
Type	Public High school
Motto	Obra pa gya Owura kwan
Founded	20 February 1953;73 years ago (20 February 1953)
Status	active
School district	Gomoa West District
Oversight	Ministry of Education
Head of school	Comfort Essah-Amoaful (Mrs)
Gender	Boys and Girls(mixed school)
Age	14to 18
Classes offered	General Science, General Arts, Business Visual Arts
Houses	10
Colours	Yellow and Green
Slogan	Obrapa! Gya Owura Kwan.
Nickname	Apamites

Apam Senior High School is a co-educational senior high school at Apam in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region of Ghana founded in 1953. ^{[1] [2]}

History

Apam Senior High 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. J. W. DeGraft-Johnson as a day school with 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 Peter Augustus Owiredu. Owiredu took over as the headmaster from Rev. Degraft-Johnson in 1959 to 1981(?).

By 1964, the school had moved from a day school to a boarding school and had introduced Advanced Level subjects in the Arts and Sciences in addition to the Ordinary Level courses it offered.

Programmes run by the school include; General Arts, Business, Science, Home Economics, Visual Arts and Agriculture Science recently added. ^[3]

Notable alumni

• Amerley Ollennu Awua-Asamoa, Ghanaian diplomat
• Nene Amegatcher, lawyer, academic and judge; active Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2018 – 2023)
• Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, lawyer and judge; current Chief Justice of Ghana (2019 – 2023)
• Kojo Armah, diplomat, lawyer and politician
• David Dontoh, actor and television personality
• Guru, Ghanaian musician
• Nii Ashie Kotey, judge and academic; active Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2018 – 2023)
• Nana Kuffour, footballer
• Amoaku Ogyadu Obuadabang Larbi, Ghanaian patrician
• Aaron Mike Oquaye, politician; former Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana (2017 – 2020)
• Ato Quayson, Professor of English at Stanford University, formerly at New York University, and Professor and inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora Studies at the university of Toronto.
• Nana-Kwame Bediako, real estate mogul, industrialist and philanthropist

Former headteachers

1. 1953 - 1958 – J. W. De-Graft Johnson
2. 1959 - 1979 – P.A. Owiredu
3. 1980 - 1988 – Sam Parry
4. 1988 - 2004 – Esther Hamilton
5. 2004 - 2016 – Archibold K. Fuah
6. 2016 - 2019 – Nana E. C. Acquah
7. 2019 - Date – Jemima Elsie Arthur-Morrison ^[4]

References

1. "Apam Senior High School welcomes first year students". Ghana News Agency. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
2. "Apam Senior High School gets four new projects". apamshs.ed.gh. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
3. "Apam Senior High School". Oapamseniorhighschool.webs.com. 21 October 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
4. https://www.hrw.org/about/people/akwasi-aidoo