Accra Academy

Accra Academy
Accra Academy Crest
Address
Map
P. O. Box GP 501

Bubuashie

Accra
,
Greater Accra Region

Ghana
Coordinates5°34′18″N 0°14′38″W / 5.57167°N 0.24389°W / 5.57167; -0.24389
Information
Typeday and boarding high school
MottoEsse Quam Videri
Established20 July 1931 (93 years ago) (1931-07-20)[1]
School districtAccra Metropolitan District.[2]
Chairman of the Board of GovernorsMr. Justice Jones Dotse
HeadmasterEmmanuel Fiemawhle
Staff45 (non-teaching)
Faculty75
GradesForms' (1–3)
GenderBoys
Number of students2,000[4]
Campus size37 acres[8]
Campus typeUrban[5][6][7]
Color(s)Yellow   and blue  
SloganBleoo[3]
AthleticsTrack and field
Athletics conferenceGreater Accra super-zonal athletics
MascotLion
NicknameLittle Legon
Websiteaccraacademy.edu.gh

Accra Academy is a boys' high school located at Bubuashie near Kaneshie in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. It admits both boarding and day students. Founded as a private school in 1931, it gained the status of a Government-Assisted School in 1950. It is the oldest existing high school to have been founded in the Gold Coast without prior involvement of a religious society, the government or a chiefdom.[9][10][11][12]

The academy runs courses in business, general science, general arts, agricultural science and visual arts, leading to the award of a West African Senior School Certificate.[6][13][10][14][15][16][excessive citations]

The academy's founders provided tuition to students who wanted a secondary-grade education but who did not have financial support to enable them do so.[8][17] The first principal and co-founder, Kofi Konuah periodically travelled to some of the major towns in each region of the country to organize entrance examinations for students, so as to offer the brilliant but needy among them the opportunity of education in the Accra Academy.[18] The academy no longer offers special admission to brilliant but needy students but, as per a 2005 general directive from the Ghana Education Service, admits its students through a school selection placement system.[19]

Accra Academy was ranked 8th out of the top 100 high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, internet and news visibility.[20] Amongst its achievements include; being the first school to have produced successive Chief Justices of Ghana, and the only school to have produced successive Ghanaian Speakers of Parliament. It is also the first school to have produced a head of government and a deputy head of government in the same Ghanaian government.[21]

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  9. ^ "Education: What We Need Is a Realistic Policy". modernghana.com. Daily Graphic. Retrieved 1 May 2011..
  10. ^ a b "From King George VI to President Kufour". ghanaculture.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2008..
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  12. ^ Austin, Dennis (1964). Politics in Ghana, 1946–1960. Oxford University Press. p. 15.
  13. ^ Accra Academy Student Manual. Accra: Accra Academy. 2001. p. 5.
  14. ^ "Top Students and Students from Ghana's Top High Schools". Survey of Ghanaian. poverty-action.org. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2009..
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  16. ^ "Independent Schools". commonwealth-of-nations.org. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
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  18. ^ Agyemang, Fred M. (2006). Our Presbyterian Heritage. Pedigree Publications. p. 144.
  19. ^ "Computerized School Selection Placement System". moe.gov.gh. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  20. ^ "top20highschools". Africa Almanac. 1 October 2003. Archived from the original on 14 January 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2016. The research leading up to the publication of the 100 Best High Schools in Africa began with the launching of the website in December 2000.
  21. ^ Elvis D. Aryeh, ed. (11 July 2002), "All set for Accra Academy's homecoming", The Daily Graphic, no. 148572, p. 19