Asafo Akyem Senior High School was established as a community school on 18th February 1991, under it's first Headmaster Mr.Kyere Alexander Kofi. The school started at the present Methodist JHS premises with seven(7) students but was later moved to its presentsite in 1994. In 1996, some Baptist Missionaries from America visited the school and decided to adopt it. As part of an arrangement, the name of the school was changed to Akyem Asafo St. Pauli's Community Secondary School. The School however lost contact with the Missionaries and when the previous Government decided to rename all the secondary schools as Senior High Schools, the name of the school metamorphosed to Akim Asafo Senior High School