If You Want To Attend Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School, Here Is What You Should Know

Everything there is to know about Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School history, programmes, how to get admitted and more will be touched on.

Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School History

Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School (PRESEC) is a secondary boarding school for boys, in Legon, Accra, Ghana. It was established in 1938, under the supervision of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast. The Basel missionary–theologian, Nicholas Timothy Clerk (1862–1961), who served as the first Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1918 to 1932, used his term to subsidize for the establishment of the secondary school.

In Odumase and was the inception of the school after an educationist of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast, E. A. W. Engmann, continued to foyer and push for the establishment of a church boys’ school, after N. T. Clerk had retired from his church position. With the first group of 16 boys and four teachers, his effort became a reality in 1938. Engmann was the first headmaster.

The Odumase campus lodged German missionaries, then a primary school and a government survey school before becoming the Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School.
PRESEC was located here until 1968 when it was moved to its current location at Legon, Mile 9.

The new campus at Legon just north east of the University of Ghana campus at Mile 9, received its first set of students in 1968. At the new campus, it continued as a boys’ boarding secondary school until the mid-1970s whenThe sixth form was upgraded to the National Science College.

It began to admit female student in the sixth form in small numbers from September 1975. They continued to be part of the student body till June 1996 when the last batch left.

Houses That Can Be Located On Presec Campus

Kwansa House
Clerk House
Engmann House                                               Akro House
Riis House
Labone House
Ako-Adjei House
Owusu Parry House
House 9
P. T. A. House

Courses Offered at Presec Legon

General Science

Agric Science

Business

General Arts

Visual Arts

Presence Legon Achievements

Being the only school that has won the National Mathematics and Science Quiz, eight times.

Participant, the International Robofest (Robogolf) in May 2016 at Michigan State, U.S.A. Winners of the Gold Award: Excellence in Robot Design, Gold Award, Excellence in Programming.

Silver award, Multi-Grain Colour Sorter challenge National Robotics Competition – 2016.

3rd best performing school during the National Best Teacher and Best School Awards – 2017 among others.

How To Get Admission Into Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School

Presec Boy’s Secondary School is a class A school and therefore will be determined to pick the best students with good grades from various schools. Students are places into schools based on their grades and raw score performance.

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A student with a grade and a raw score of (12 and 450 respectively) and above may stand a chance to be admitted into Presec. However, if two students A and B have an aggregate of 12 and just one is to be selected, the raw score would be used, so if student A has a raw score of 440 and student B has 455 student B would be considered for admission.

Written by Ghana Education News Editorial Staff

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