History of Ghana Senior High, Tamale
Ghana Senior High School, Tamale was established by the Convention Peoples Party [C.P.P.] Government as one of the Ghana Education Trust schools in 1960.
It was started as part of the governments accelerated development plan which sought to provide the needed human resource for the technological and industrial take off of the country.
Originally named Ghana College, it started with seventy students [all male]. The name Ghana College was changed to Ghana secondary school in June 1970.
At its inception the school admitted and prepared students to sit the G.C.E. Ordinary Level examinations in the Science and Arts programmes. In 1978, the school introduced the sixth form programme which admitted successful G.C.E. Ordinary Level candidates to pursue the Advanced Level programme.
The first headmaster of the school was Mr. Kenneth Luther Purser, a Jamaican. Master Abu Kassim Tahidu from Kwame Danso in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana was the first Senior Prefect.
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.
