The Gold Coast Government established Opoku Ware School, originally known as Yaa Asantewaa College, at the request of the Catholic Church in Ashanti Region to cater for boys education as an alternative to traveling to St. Augustines College in Cape Coast.
Rev. Fr. Peter Burgess conducted interviews and admitted 60 boys to Santas School in February 1952. He devised a number-based identification system that is still in use today, with the first batch being numbered K1 to K60.
Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II changed the name to Opoku Ware because he thought it was strange for a boys school to have a female name.
Vision Of Opoku Ware Senior High School
To strive to be a center for achieving an integral formation, that has for its objective the total development of the human person.
Mission Of Opoku Ware Senior High School
The School aims at delivering top quality and holistic education based on academic excellence and sound moral principles of the total development of its students.
Courses Available
- General Science
- General Arts
- Business
- Visual Arts.
Facilities At School
Opoku Ware Senior High School has 60 classrooms, six science laboratories, a library, and computer labs.
Categories at School
- Mixed gender
- Housing situation: Day care and boarding
- Year of commencement: 1952
- Fr. Stephen Owusu Sekyere is the head of the school.
School Population
Total number of SHS 1 Students: 1182
Total number of SHS 2 Students: 1818
Total number of SHS 3 Students: 1016
Achievements at the School
- Basketball National Champions in 2016
- 2016 Regional Table Tennis Champions
- 2016 National Table Tennis Champions
- Best School in WASSCE Mathematics in 2015 and 2017.
- National WASSCE Examination Results- Consistently among the top ten schools in the country