Ghana Senior High School (Tamale)


Ghana Senior High School is a co-educational second cycle institution located in Tamale, Northern Region of Ghana.

History

Originally called Ghana College, the school was established in 1960 by the Government of Ghana, under Kwame Nkrumah, as one of the Ghana Education Trust Schools. It has a student population of about 2,800, and is the second largest school in the region after . The first headmaster of the school was Kenneth Luther Purser, a Jamaican.  Master Abu Kassim Tahidu from Kwame Danso in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana was the first senior prefect.

Key areas

The administration block, the old dining hall, the new larger dining hall/ jams hall, the arts/ PTA block, the science block, the science laboratories including home economics laboratory, the mosque, Nkrumah house, Gbewaa house, Cabral/Gbanzaba house, and purser house are boys dormitories. The girls dormitories include; indice 1, indice 2 house, annex 1, annex 2 house and Lordina house, the headmaster's bungalow and the teachers bungalows. The Ghanasco dam is used by surrounding communities including Kukou and Ghanacans themselves.

Achievements

In 2019, the school beat Armed Forces Senior High School and New Juaben Senior High School in the Ghana National Science and Maths Quiz, which qualified them to the quarterfinals in 2019.
In June 1970, a historic feat was chalked by the school when Mr. Lalaji, a mathematics teacher and his science students invented a rocket.  On 22nd June 1970 the rocket was launched in the school with the Minister of Education Mr. William Offori-Attah in attendance.

Former headmasters

Notable former students