Prempeh College

Prempeh College is a public secondary boarding school for boys located in Kumasi, the capital city of the Ashanti Region, Ghana. The school was founded in 1949 by the Asanteman traditional authority, the British Colonial Government, the Methodist Church Ghana, and the Presbyterian Church of Ghana The School is named after the King of Ashanti, (Asantehene) Sir Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II, who donated the land on which the school was built. and was modeled on Eton College in England. The school topped matriculation at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2004 with 441 students admitted and in 2012, with 296 students from the college admitted, and is considered to be one of the best secondary schools in Ghana. The School has won the National Robotics Championships a record five times between 2013 and 2021. In 2016 Prempeh College won the Toyota Innovation Award at the International Robofest World Championships held in Michigan, USA

HISTORY OF PREMPEH COLLEGE

In the early 1940s, the British Colonial Government invited the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches, which had already established institutions such as Wesly Girls High School and the Presbyterian Boys Secondary School in Krobo Odumase based on their experience, to help set up a school in the middle belt of Ghana to serve the northern sector of the country. Although there were some delays due to the second world war, in 1948 Prempeh College was designed by renowned British modernist Architect Maxwell Fry and his wife Jane Drew. Compared to other works by Jane Drew in Ashanti Region, the Prempeh College campus was designed to incorporate modernist refinements as described by Lain Jackson and Jessica Holland in their book titled "The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew: Twentieth Century Pioneer Modernism and the tropics. According to the Ashanti Pioneer Newspaper, the opening ceremony of Prempeh College was held on the 5th of February 1949. Major C. O.Butler, the chief commissioner of Ashanti gave the following address at the ceremony. There is a great and growing need for training men to take up posts of responsibility not just as clerks in offices but in Agricultural Education, Mining, Forestry, Architecture, Engineering and Building in the many other technical posts on the fulling of which by Africans the future development of Ashanti and the Gold Coast as a whole largely depends … We British from overseas are here to help you ultimately to administer the country yourselves … until you yourselves can provide the agriculturalists, engineers, the technicians and the tradesmen who can develop the natural resources of your country. In summary, the college was expected to produce scientists and technocrats who could play vital roles in the economy of the Gold Coast. At the same opening ceremony, Prempeh II outlined his expectation for Prempeh College: ‘the hope that the students of the College would shine not only in the intellectual field but also in the moral firmament.

As of 2012, the headmaster was E. K. Yeboah, a member of CHASS

ACHIEVEMENT

Prempeh College was the first school to win the National Science and Maths Quiz in 1994 and 1996. The College also won the 2015,2017 and 2021 editions of the Ghana National Science and Maths Quiz which makes them one of the most successful schools in the National Science and Maths Quiz competitions. Prempeh College has also won the Ghana National Debate championship competition a record two times in 1997 and in 2004. Prempeh College is the first Secondary institution in Ghana and Africa to win the World Robofest 2016 or World Robotics competition, beating giants from China, Japan, and other industrialized countries. They won the Toyota Innovation Award that year and are the only school from Africa to win it. Prempeh College Robotics Club has also won a number of other robotics awards over the years, some of their achievements include the 2016 Ashanti Regional Robotics Champions, Robofest Toyota Innovation Award Champions 2016, Robofest National Champions 2016, National Robotics 2015, National Robotics Champions 2014, Regional Robotics Champions 2013, winners of the Regional Robotics Competition 2012, Achievement in Best Programming at the Robotics Inspired Science Education Competition 2011, The 2016 National Robofest Qualifiers, Presec-Legon, Ghana Champions. The school represented Ghana at the World robotics olympiad in New Delhi India The school also represented Ghana at the World Robotics Online Competition where the school amassed a total of 22 trophies. A total of 3 teams were presented by the school with the teams 1st, 3rd, and 5th spots in the competition. The school became the first ever to win the competition for a second consecutive time having won the prior competition in Michigan. However, the 2020 edition was held online due to the impact of the Covid-19 on traveling.

MISSION

To provide committed service and the relevant inputs that will enhance teaching and learning, ensure compliance of school rules and regulations by students, and mould the character of students in achieving the vision of the College

VISION

Prempeh College was established to be the preferred educational centre catering to the needs of the middle and northern sectors of Ghana.