West Africa Senior High, Adenta

Gender – Mixed
Housing status – Day & Boarding

District: La Nkwantanang Madina Municipal
Year of Establishment – 1946

West Africa Senior High School (WASS) is a second-cycle school in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region, situated in Adenta. The school is a three-year senior high school program offered by a mixed-day, non-denominational organization with government assistance. Emmanuel Addo and Rev. J. C. Tettey started the school in 1946.

VISION

To provide infrastructure development for the benefit of staff and students and to elevate the school’s Human Resource level to the best possible level.

MISSION

To meet the demand for labor while providing high-quality, affordable, and well-rounded education for the good of all people.

About West Africa Senior High School

West Africa Senior High is in the La Nkwantang-Madina Municipality. It was originally located at Lagos Town and moved to its current location at Adentan in 1989. It is a government-assisted mixed Day and Non-Denomination school.

History

The school started in Tudu as the West Africa College of Commerce in 1946. In 1954, the school was absorbed into the public system as a Government-Assisted school.

Enrollment

West Africa Senior High School has a total student population of 1639 of which 49% are girls and 51% are boys.

Alumni

• Kirani Ayat, rapper, singer and producer;
• Pearl Akanya Ofori of CitiFM

SCHOOL STATISTICS

• No. of Students (SHS 1): 734
• No. of Students (SHS 2): 1199
• No. of Students (SHS 3): 804

SCHOOL FACILITIES

• 44 Classrooms
• 3 Science Labs
• Library
• 2 Computer Labs
• 3 Bungalows
• Visual Arts Block
• Kitchen/Dining Hall
• Administration block
• Sport Field: Football, Basketball and Handball.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Science: Qualification for National Science
  & Math Quiz for the Second (2nd) time and
  reached the quarter-finals. The school is now
  seeded for the 2018 edition.