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Full List of Top 10 Schools In Accra 2023

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Top 10 Schools In Accra

If you are looking for the top 10 schools in Accra, you are indeed at the right place.

Prospective Senior High School students would want to attend the best senior high schools in Ghana and Parents will equally want the best for their wards, hence the search of suitable schools normally done ahead of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) each year.

Academic performance at WASSCE, School’s achievement, Infrastructure, and facilities are among the important ranking factors the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) used to rank Senior High Schools in Ghana.

Today, we present to you the senior high schools that have defied all odds to register their names as top 10 schools in Accra.

When it comes to Senior High School education in Ghana, the Greater Accra Region also boasts of the best schools offering quality education but unfortunately, only 7 out of the numerous senior high schools in the Region are “First Class Schools”.

The arrangement of schools in our publication is in no order. We are just presenting them as they were written.

This article is meant to serve as a guide to students or parents who will look for the top 10 schools in Accra Region for their wards.

Here are the Top 10 Schools in Accra

Accra Academy

Category A schools in Greater Accra Region

The Accra Academy was the first private academy to be established in the Gold Coast, present-day Ghana. The academy is one of the foremost secondary educational institutions in Ghana and operates as a non-denominational day and boarding boys’ school, located at Bubuashie, near Kaneshie in the Greater Accra Region.

The academy runs courses in business, science, general arts, general agric, and visual arts, leading to the award of a West African Senior School Certificate.

Motto: Esse Quam Videri
Founded: 20th July 1931

Accra Girls’ Senior High School

Category A schools in Greater Accra Region

Accra Girls’ Senior High School commonly known as AGISS is an all-female second cycle institution in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

The school operates as a non-denominational day and boarding school. The school runs courses in business, g neral science, general arts, home economics, and visual arts, leading to the award of a West African Senior High School Certificate (WASSCE).

Motto: Aim High

Founded: 30th September 1960

Achimota School

Category A schools in Greater Accra Region

Achimota School is a co-educational boarding school located at Achimota in Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana. The school was founded in 1924 by Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, and the Rev. Alec Garden Fraser. It was formally opened in 1927 by Sir Frederick Guggisberg, then Governor of the British Gold Coast colony. Achimota, modeled on the British public school system, was the first mixed-gender school to be established on the Gold Coast.

The school has educated many African leaders, including Kwame Nkrumah, Edward Akufo-Addo, Jerry John Rawlings, and John Evans Atta Mills all of whom are former Heads of State of Ghana. Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama had his primary education there while former Prime Minister of Ghana, Kofi Abrefa Busia also taught at Achimota.

Motto: Ut Omnes Unum Sint
(That they all may be one)

Founded: 28 January 1927

St. Mary’s Senior High School

Category A schools in Greater Accra Region

St Mary’s Senior High School is an all female second cycle institution in Korle Gonno in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

St. Mary’s Senior High School was established on 6th February 1950 by the Catholic missionary sisters known as Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit(SSPS). The school started with ten girls and a staff of two(2) Reverend sisters namely: the late Reverend Sisters, Jane, and Rosette. ,

Motto: Truth and Virtue

St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School 

Category A schools in Greater Accra 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. The school is currently located in Cantonments, a suburb of Accra. It was established mainly to provide education for boys of the Accra Archdiocese whose parents could not afford the high cost then of sending their male children to boarding schools. It was among five secondary schools established in 1952.

Motto: Veritas Liberat
(The truth shall set you free)

Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School (PRESEC)

Category A schools in Greater Accra Region

Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School (PRESEC) is a prestigious secondary boarding school for boys, in Legon, Accra, Ghana. It was founded in 1938, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast.

The Basel missionary, Nicholas Timothy Clerk (1862–1961), who served as the first Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1918 to 1932, used his tenure to advocate for the establishment of the secondary school.

Motto: In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen

Among our best 10 schools in Accra is Tema Senior High School

Category A schools in Greater Accra Region

Tema Senior High School was opened on Friday, September 22nd, 1961 with an initial intake of 52 students. The number increased to 105 by the end of the month.

There were 3 Form 1 streams [A, B, and C]. These continued to the Sixth Form Level and turned out the first batch of students in 1968.

The subjects offered at the ‘Advanced Level were: English, Economics, Geography, History and Logic for the Arts and Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Pure and Applied Mathematics for the Sciences.

St. John’s Grammar SchoolTop 10 Schools In Accra

St John’s Grammar School is an independent Anglican co-educational early learning, primary, and secondary day school located in Belair in the Adelaide Hills, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of the Adelaide city centre. It caters for students from early learning through to Year 12.

Wesley Grammar School top 10 schools in Accra

Wesley Grammar School is a co-ed school, founded in 1956, in Accra, Ghana.

Accra High SchoolTop 10 Schools in Accra

Accra High School is a High school located in Accra, Ghana in West Africa. It initially started as a Boys’ School.

Accra High School was founded by the late Rev. James Thomas Roberts on 17 August 1923. The school, was located at beach avenue in Aayalolo, a suburb of Accra, Ghana.

The school celebrated its first anniversary in August 1924 with a church service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Accra and the sermon was delivered by the Anglican Bishop of Accra, the late Dr. John Aglionby. Thus, there was a tie between the school and the Church of England.