Juaben Senior High School

Juaben Senior High School
Juaben Senior High School
Location
	Juaben ; Ghana
Information
Other name	Juaben SHS
Former name	Juaben Secondary School
Established	November 1972
Staff	ca. 120 teaching and ca. 85 non-teaching default label
Gender	coeducational
Number of students	ca. 3502

Last updated September 16, 2024

Juaben Senior High School, also known as Juaben SHS, formerly Juaben Secondary School, is a co-educational senior high school in Juaben, a town in the Ejisu-Juaben District of the Ashanti Region in Ghana.^[1]

History

The school opened with the name Juaben Secondary School in November 1972, starting with 87 students.^[2]^[3] It had originally been opened in 1950 as a model Girl's Basic School, and was converted to a Women's Training College in October 1962.^[2]

In 2020, the school won a computing competition for senior high schools in the Ashanti Region called Code Afrique, which had been organised by Cornell University and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.^[4]

Operations

The school is under the Ghana Education Service of the government of Ghana. The school is located in Ashanti Juaben in the Ejisu Juaben Municipality, about 30 km from Kumasi and about 8 km from Ejisu.

The school has about 3861 students, a teaching staff of about 152 and non-teaching staff of around 99 making it 251 staff members.

It has a boarding facility for its students. The school has about 2979 boarders with some 882 day students.

The school offers programmes in general agriculture, general arts, general science, home economics and the visual arts.

The school has 8 houses with each having about 482 students; the houses are Nana Adarkwa Yiadom, Bishop Asante Antwi, Nana Yaw Sarpong II, Nana Otuo Serebour II for boys and Danielles Ghartey, Sussana Wesley, Rose E. Coker, and Nana Akosua Akyaama II. The school has over the years chocked up a lot of successes in both academics and co-curricular activities in the area of sports, debate, drama, etc.

Notable alumni

John Amponsah, javelin thrower
Joseph Osei Owusu, lawyer, MP for Bekwai constituency
Nana Appiagyei Dankawoso, vice president Ghana Chamber of commerce, Board Member University of Cape Business School
Charles Kwadwo Fosu, aka Daddy Lumba, musician
Kwame Sarpong Appiah, PhD, Researcher at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology^[5]

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References

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1 2 Freiku, Sebastian R. (6 December 2011). "Juaben SHS launches 40th Anniversary". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
↑ "Juaben Senior High School celebrates 40 years". Ghana News Agency. 24 October 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
↑ Ebbah, Gideon D. (13 February 2020). "Juaben Traditional Council honours school for achievement". Ghana News Agency. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
↑ "Kwame S. Appiah".