Yendi Senior High School

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Yendi Senior High School(YESS) is a coeducational secondary school in Yendi in the Northern Region of Ghana. [1] [2] The school was established in 1970, first as a middle-boarding school to enable access to basic education for communities in the Eastern Corridor enclave, before being upgraded in September of the same year to the status of a secondary school. For the first academic year, the school had only a total student population of 77, with 70 boys and seven girls. The first headmaster of the school was Cletus Bernard Teviu. He headed the school for nearly a decade, spanning between 1970 and 1979, and one of the hostels in the school has been named in his honour. In the year 2020 when the school celebrated its 50th anniversary, the total student population was 2,724 and the number of teachers was 121. [3] The school operates as a boarding school, but few students attend as day students.

History

As of 2016, the school had a girls' dormitory with 500 students. [4] [5]

In 2018, Alhaji Faruok Aliu Mahama donated GH¢ 10,000.00 to the school for a water project. [6]

The Jubilee Park at the school was used in January 2019 as part of the coronation process for Yaa Naa Abubakari Mahama as king of Dagbon. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Yendi Senior High School" . Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "Yendi Senior High School". All Ghana Data. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Staff Writer (2019-12-22). "Yendi Senior High School Celebrates It's [sic] 50th Anniversary". SHSTRENDZ.COM. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  4. ↑ "Yendi SHS students appeal for help". BusinessGhana. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  5. ↑ Futukpor, Albert (10 October 2016). "Yendi SHS Girls want help to end open defecation". Ghana news Agency. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  6. ↑ "Farouk Aliu Mahama gets water project for Yendi SHS". Savanna News 24. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  7. ↑ "History in the making as new Yaa-Naa is outdoored today". GhanaWeb. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 2019-04-02.


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