Tarkwa Senior High School | |
---|---|
Address | |
P. O. Box 47 Tarkwa, Western Region | |
Coordinates | 5°17′30″N2°00′14″W / 5.29165°N 2.00401°W |
Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Motto | Carpe Diem (Seize The Opportunity) |
Established | 1961 |
Founder | Kwame Nkrumah |
Status | Active |
School district | Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal District |
Oversight | Ministry of Education |
Gender | Coed |
Age | 14to 18 |
Classes offered | Business, general arts, general science, visual arts |
Language | English |
Houses | 9 |
Tarkwa Senior High School is a co-educational senior high school in the mining town of Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana.
The school was founded in 1961 by the first president of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, under the accelerated Development Plan for Education when Ghana attained independence. [1]
The school has a total of 8 houses ( 4 for boys and 4 for girls).
Boys house | Girls House |
Bolsover | Ama Saa |
Fabil | Nightingale |
Sarbah | Yaa Asantewaa |
Aggrey | Nyaniba |
Tarkwa is a town and is the capital of Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal district, a district in the Western Region southwest of South Ghana. Tarkwa has a population of 34,941 people according to 2013 settlement.
The University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) is a public university located at Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana.
Prestea is a town in the Western Region, in southwest Ghana and about 50 km north of the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies on the west bank of the Ankobra River, about 60 mi (100 km) northwest of Cape coast. The town is part of the Prestea-Huni Valley District. Prestea is the forty-sixth most populous in Ghana, in terms of population, with a population of 35,760 people. A railway line connects Prestea to Tarkwa and beyond to the coastal city of Sekondi-Takoradi.
.
St. Peter's Senior High School, or PERSCO, is a Roman Catholic boys' senior high school in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The school was established in 1957 by the Divine Word Missionaries (SVD). The school is located in the town of Nkwatia Kwahu on the Kwahu Ridge.
The KNUST Senior High School is a co-educational institution in Kumasi, Ghana. The school's nickname, in the Akan language, is Mmadwemma, meaning "people who carefully think before acting".
Aggrey Memorial A.M.E. Zion Senior High School is a publicly-supported Coeducational senior high school in Cape Coast, Ghana. It educates students to pass the WASSCE.
Emmanuel Evans-AnfomFRCSEd FICS FAAS FWACS was a Ghanaian physician, scholar, university administrator, and public servant who served as the second Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology from 1967 to 1973.
Pope John Senior High School and Minor Seminary, is an all-boys boarding school, located at Effiduase, Koforidua, in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It was established in 1958 by Bishop Joseph Oliver Bowers SVD as a Catholic seminary for boys who wished to become priests. Students are offered courses such as general arts, general science, business and visual arts to pursue and after their stay in the school, sit an external examination called the West African Senior School Certificate Examination to be placed in any of the tertiary institutions in the country.
St. Paul's Senior High School or St. Paul's Boys College, formerly St. Paul's Secondary, is a Ghanaian boys' senior high school located at Hatsukope-Denu in the Ketu South Municipal District of the Volta Region.
St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School is a Ghanaian public day senior high school for boys in the Osu, district of Accra in the Greater Accra Region. This was established in 1952. The school is currently located in Cantonments, a suburb of Accra. It was established to provide education for boys of the Accra Archdiocese of the Catholic Church whose parents could not afford the cost of sending their male children to boarding school.
Dzodze Penyi Senior High School is located in the Ketu North District of the Volta Region, Ghana. The school was established in 1963 as a college for teacher training. The high school has 44 permanent teachers, 35 non-teaching staff, one service person and one Peace-Corps volunteer. The motto of the School is 'Stoop to Conquer.' These words were taken from a comedy titled She Stoops to Conquer, which was written by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith.
Mim Senior High School popularly known as Misec is a secondary educational institution in Ghana and operates as a co-educational, non-denominational, day and boarding located in Mim in the Asunafo North Municipal District in the Ahafo Region of Ghana. Its motto is 'Let Your Light Shine'.
Mawuli School is a co-educational, boarding senior high school located in Ho in the Ho Municipal district in the Volta Region of Ghana.
Nifa Senior High School (NISEC) is a category B co-educational second-cycle institution in Adukrom, situated in the Okere District in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
Reverend John Ntim Fordjour is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, representing the Assin South Constituency in the Central Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. He currently serves as the Deputy Minister of Education following his appointment by H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and receiving Parliamentary approval.
The Presbyterian Senior High School is a Presbyterian coeducational first-cycle institution in Akuapim-Mampong in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It is situated northeast of Tutu, close to Mampong Akwapim Senior High/Technical School for the Deaf.
Benkum Senior High School, is a Presbyterian category B co-educational first-cycle institution in Larteh Akuapem in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
Adonten Senior High School is a coeducational first-cycle institution located south of Aburi in the Eastern Region of Ghana.