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Our History
SDA Senior High School, Agona-Ashanti is a 60-year-old institution established through the close collaboration between the SDA church, the Agona Community, and the Government on 25th October, 1963 through the resilient efforts of Pastor C.B. Mensah, the Ghana Mission President; nana Kwame Boakye I, the Omanhene of Agona Traditional Area; and Mr. Martin Kyeremateng, a native of Agona.
The institution started as a Teacher Training College, which was then called Agona SDA Training College (AGATCO), with five (5) staff members and eighty (80) students: sixty (60) boys and twenty (20) girls, however, it was converted to a Secondary school on October 5, 1972 by an ACT of Government Policy leading to a complete phase out of the training college by 1974 with an initial intake of thirty-eight (38) students. Mr. L.H. Berlin, a white man and Mr. I.K. Ansong were first principal of the training college and Headmaster of the secondary school respectively. The institution has had fifteen (15) heads since its establishment with the current being Mr. Kingsley Ofori Gyimah.
About Us
From the initial intake of eighty (80) students, the institution has grown to become one of the oversubscribed schools within its catchment area. AGASS has recorded an average student’s population of about three thousand (3,000) every academic year in the last five years, with the numerical strength of the students in this current academic year standing at two thousand, eight hundred and eighty – nine (2,889) out of which, 55.1% are girls while the rest 44.9% are boys.
It is instructive to note that there is parity in the percentages of male and female students enrolled in AGASS and where possible, female enrollment is prioritized.
This school has a permanent staff of two hundred and forty-eight (248) members consisting of one hundred and sixty-eight (168) teaching staff and eighty (80) non-teaching staff in this academic year.
AGASS is implementing six (6) academic programmes: Agricultural Science, Business, General Arts, General Science, Home Economics and Visual Arts through the Transitional Academic Calendar for all double track schools under the Free SHS system.
