About the School

INTRODUCTION

The compilation of the history of Tarkwa Senior Secondary School contained in this book is an attempt to immortalise the revered founders of the school and to hold aloft the burning vision and principles of the same.
Our cherished hope is that the brief history of the school will inspire the present generation of students and continue to inspire successive generations of students who would have the privilege of passing through the walls of the school.

HISTORY

Tarkwa Secondary School, now Tarkwa Senior High School, was one of the Ghana Educational Trust Schools built by the Government of Ghana in the early sixties under the Accelerated Development Plan for Education when Ghana Attained independence under the dynamic and progressive leadership of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

The school’s foundation stone was laid in January 1961, after a site had been acquired from the Amalgamated Banket Area (A.B.A) Mining Company, now Tarkwa Goldfields Limited. Constructional works on the school was awarded to Messrs. Ansah-Eshun and Company, who enjoyed the fullest support and co-operation of Mr E.K. Dadson, then a member of Parliament for Tarkwa, and a Parliamentary Secretary responsible for the office of the Prime Minister, who worked with in record time to enable the school to open according to schedule in September 1961.

Thus, Tarkwa Secondary School was formally opened as a government assisted non-denominational and co-educational boarding school in September 1961. The first Headmaster was Mr Charles Kodwo Enyawosika Stephens, a man of astonishing energy and ability, highly principled and very uncompromising on discipline.

He worked with an initial teaching staff of three (3) Messrs. David Hutchison, an American Peace Corp, Robert Kwansah and Emmanuel Francis Eshun, both Ghanaians. The original pioneer students at the school numbered fifty-nine (59), forty-sixe boys and thirteen girls. By October of the same year, the number had shot up to seventy (70).

The first school prefect when the school got to Form 5 in 1966 was Samuel Tettey (Boys and Martha Aidoo (Girls), respectively.