Juaben Senior High School

Juaben Senior High School, also known as Juaben SHS, formerly Juaben Secondary School, is a co-educational senior high school in Juaben, a town in the Ejisu-Juaben District of the Ashanti Region in Ghana.

Brief History

The school opened with the name Juaben Secondary School in November 1972, starting with 87 students. It had originally been opened in 1950 as a model Girl's Basic School and was converted into a Women's Training College in October 1962.

In 2020, the school won a computing competition for senior high schools in the Ashanti Region called Code Afrique, which had been organized by Cornell University and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Operations

The school is under the Ghana Education Service of the government of Ghana. The school is located in Ashanti Juaben in the Ejisu Juaben Municipality, about 30 km from Kumasi and about 8 km from Ejisu.

The school has about 3861 students, a teaching staff of about 152, and a non-teaching staff of around 99 making it 251 staff members.

It has a boarding facility for its students. The school has about 2979 boarders with some 882-day students.

The school offers programmes in general agriculture, general arts, general science, home economics, and the visual arts.

The school has 8 houses with each having about 482 students; the houses are Nana Adarkwa Yiadom, Bishop Asante Antwi, Nana Yaw Sarpong II, Nana Otuo Serebour II for boys and Danielles Ghartey, Sussana Wesley, Rose E. Comer, and Nana Akosua Akyaama II. The school has over the years chalked up a lot of successes in both academics and co-curricular activities in the area of sports, debate, drama, etc.

Mission

Juaben Senior High School exists to provide academic excellence, holistic growth and development of its students through dedicated teaching, sound religious and moral instructions that thrive well in a peaceful environment, with collaboration from all stakeholders so as to produce responsible, respectful, and well-related citizens, who can pursue tertiary courses of specialisation and function well in every endeavour of life.

Vision

To be a centre where young men and women who are well educated, well-groomed and disciplined with a high sense of integrity are trained.