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Gender – Mixed
Housing status – Day
Year of Establishment – 1982
The second-cycle school Chemu Secondary School is in Tema, which is in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. It is open to both boys and girls. The school is in Tema’s Community Four and is a day boarding school (no hostels).
VISION
To be a center of excellence in education where young people are trained to be disciplined and hard-working.
MISSION
Chemu Senior High School exists to offer a vibrant academic environment that fosters a spirit of excellence through discipline and hard work to help learners acquire pre-requisite qualities and knowledge to assume meaningful responsibilities.
History
The school was created when Ama Atta Aidoo, who was Secretary of the Ministry of Education in Ghana at the time, wanted to lower the cost of boarding schools and get more students to attend day schools. The Tema Township is in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Chemu also saw that there were more openings for secondary schools and decided to turn the Community 4 No. 2 Middle School into a model day secondary school called Tema Day Secondary School. The school has a logo that says “Discipline and Hard Work,” and it has eight classrooms. When it opened for real on October 12, 1982, there were 86 kids in two groups and nine teachers (9). In 1982, the school’s assistant director at the time, the late Mr. P.K. Dzitri, was sent there as Acting director. The school also got Mr. Gilbert Kpelende, who was the assistant bursar at Tema Secondary School, for a short time that same year. Since Tema Secondary School’s name wasn’t on the Common Entrance List, the first groups of students were made up of people who had tried to get into the school but failed. Some students got into the addition by taking an extra test that the school gave them after the regular test. The school’s name was changed from Tema Day School to Chemu Secondary School after the Tema Traditional Council asked for it to be changed. In the early 1990s, there were efforts to change the school’s name to Adjetey Ansah Secondary School, but this did not happen because of strong resistance from some groups, such as the Students’ Representative Council.
Academics
Chemu Secondary School offers the following programmes: Science; General Arts; Visual Arts; Home Economics and Technical. The number of classrooms currently available is about forty (40). The school boasts a big canteen, sickbay, a changing room, and a KVIP constructed with the assistance from PAMSCAD, an ultra-modern washroom built with the aid of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly and other stakeholders, a basketball court, an assembly hall, two school buses, among several other facilities worth mentioning. The school from its humble beginnings rose up to fame within a short amount of time and chalked very impressive successes in the academic field, sports, and other related fields rubbing shoulders with the very old and provided-for school. Some examples of the few achievements and progress made in these fields include the high percentage of passes recorded and recent history made by placing 3rd in the National Science and Mathematics Quiz at the first entry in 2001. The school also won the Best Teacher Award, Tema District secondary school level for years 1996 and 1999. The school won the 3rd position at the Regional level in 1995 and 1st in 2002. In other areas like Sports, the school has produced great athletes like Monica Twum, who was at the Olympic game squad, and also football players that include Dan Addo and Attakora Amaniampong who were among the Cup-winning Black Starlets squad of 1991 and 1995 respectively. These are a few of the numerous accomplishments made by the school.
SCHOOL STATISTICS
- No. of Students (SHS 1): 635
- No. of Students (SHS 2): 894
- No. of Students (SHS 3): 578
SCHOOL FACILITIES
- 36 Classrooms
- 2 Science Labs
- 2 Computer Labs
- Library.
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Winners – Inter-School District and Regional Levels National Science and Maths Quiz.
