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| Location : Achimota -Accra, Greater Accra, | |||
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| School type | High School Co-educational Boarding / Residential | ||
| Established | 1924 | ||
| Opened | 28 January 1927 | ||
| Founder | Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser. |
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| Status | Active | ||
| School board | Board of Governors | ||
| School district | Accra Metropolis | ||
| Chairperson | Mr. Emmanuel K. Okoh, Chairperson of the Board of Governors | ||
| Headteacher | Mrs. Beatrice Adom | ||
| Staff | 82 teachers, 137 other staff | ||
| Grades | Forms 1–3 (10th – 12th grades) | ||
| Gender | Boys and Girls | ||
| Age range | 14 to 18 years | ||
| Enrollment | 1,500 | ||
| Number of students | 1500 | ||
| Education system | Senior High School | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Campus | Achimota School | ||
| Campus size | 1,300 acres (525 hectares) | ||
| Campus type | Residential garden-style Setting | ||
| Houses | 15 | ||
| School colour(s) | Black and White |
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| Song | "From Gambaga to Accra" | ||
| Nickname | Motown | ||
| Publication | The Achimotan | ||
| Alumni | Old Achimotan Association (OAA) (members are called "Akoras") | ||
| Address | P. O. Box AH 11, Achimota, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana  |
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| Website | www |
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Campus life
"Though set upon a desert hill, may living waters rise in thee. And from thy children wider flow, the rivers of eternity" —quote from school hymnAchimota School occupies over two square miles (525 hectares) of prime real estate in the middle of the Achimota Forest Reserve in the Accra Metropolitan Area. The school's colonial architecture and planned landscape make it visually pleasing to tour the campus and its wooded countryside-like surroundings. The campus facilities comprise a library, a cadet square, two chapels, one of which is the Aggrey Memorial Chapel; two dining halls,on on the eastern compound and another on the Western campus two gymnasia, the Achimota School Post Office, extensive sports playing fields, a swimming pool,[8] a cricket oval, basketball court, tennis and squash courts, and an arboretum. There are several bungalows on campus for teaching staff members.
A description of Achimota School at its inception is provided below:
"Achimota College, in the Gold Coast seven miles inland from Accra is West Africa's great co-educational boarding school, where 600 West African boys and girls receive as complete an education as European or American children. It is a secondary school, teacher's training college and university rolled into one, and in planning, design and equipment it bears comparison with any educational institution anywhere. Its erection in 1925 cost £660,000 and its maintenance costs are £50,000 annually. It possesses a swimming pool, extensive playing fields, a nature reserve, a demonstration farm and a model village for the college employees. It also has its own hospital, museum, library and printing press. The students live in residential blocks spaced round the grounds, each holding 60 students and divided into 4 dormitories."[9]Close to the school's central campus are the Achimota Golf Club,[10] the Achimota School Police Station, a staff village for the school's non-teaching employees also called Anumle, a forest reserve, a large farm, and the 45-bed Achimota Hospital, as well as the community surrounding the campus.
Houses
Achimota School has fifteen male and female houses on its Eastern and Western Campuses.Male houses
- Fraser House (W) - named after Rev. Alexander (Alec) Garden Fraser
- Aggrey House (E) - named after James Kwegyir Aggrey. Aggrey House was the first house on the school campus.
- Guggisberg House (E) - named after Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg
- Gyamfi House (E) - named after a former student and member of the Asante royal family
Inauguration of Achimota School,1927
The Administration Block, MCMXXVII, is an iconic edifice of Achimota
School. The tower clock, "Big Ben," seen from a distance, is shown
against a blue sky.
- Cadbury House (E) - named after Cadbury
- Lugard House (E) - named after Lord Lugard, former Governor of Nigeria
- Livingstone House (E) - named after David Livingstone a Scottish missionary explorer of Africa
- Kwapong House (W) - named after Professor Alexander Kwapong, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, and Vice Rector of the UN University located in Tokyo
Female houses[
- Kingsley House (E) - named after Mary Kingsley, an English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer
- McCarthy House (E) - names after Sir Charles McCarthy, a former Governor of British Forts and Castle in West Africa. (McCarthy House was formerly a male house & an Engineering school)
- Slessor House (E) - named after Mary Mitchell Slessor a Scottish missionary in Nigeria
- Clark House (E) - named after English missionary Mary Clark
- Susan Ofori-Atta House (W) - named after Ghana's first female medical doctor
- Anne Baeta Jiagge House (W) named after the first Female Justice in Ghana
- O.A.A House(W) - named in honor of the alumni and members of the Old Achimotan Association. (Formerly Stopford and a male house)
Principals and heads
| Name | Tenure of office |
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| The Rev. A. G. Fraser, C.B.E. | 1924–35 |
| The Rev. H. M. Grace | 1935–41 |
| The Rev. R. W. Stopford, K.C.V.O., C.B.E. | 1941–45 |
| Mr. H. C. Niell | 1946–49 |
| Mr. P. G. Rendall | 1949–53 |
| Mr. W. E. Winlaw, T.D | 1954–59 |
| Dr. D. A. Chapman Nyaho, C.B.E. | 1959–63 |
| Dr. I. K. Chinebuah, M.P. | 1963-65 |
| Nana Alan P. Rudwick, O.B.E., G.M., | 1965–77 |
| The Rev. Canon L. Ankrah | 1977–81 |
| Mr. A.A. Dadey | 1982–85 |
| Mr. Robert Winston Asiedu | 1985–95 |
| Mrs. Charlotte Brew-Graves | 1995-02 |
| Mrs. Adelaide Kwami, G.M. | 2003–07 |
| Mrs. Beatrice T. Adom | 2007– |
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