Top 10 SHS With The Best Cadet Corps In Ghana

SHS cadet corps are often refered to as the Junior Ghanaian Military. In Ghana, almost all senior high schools have a cadet association. Their duties include;

1. To sustain a vibrant and effective cadetting in an ever changing society to produce disciplined young persons
2. To promote and among young people, a practical interest in our various security institutions.
3. To provide training that will be useful in both services and civilian life.
4. To develop in them such qualities of leadership positive values, loyalty, devotion to duty, self respect and civic awareness to become good citizens.

Let’s take a look at the ten best SHS cadet corps in Ghana.

1. Tamale Senior High

In December, 2018, the vice President of Ghana, Dr  Mahamudu Bawumia was surprised at how Tamale SHS students received him during an anniversary ceremony. The students acted just like the military. They seem trained. They are undoubtedly, the best SHS cadet corps in Ghana.

Tamale Senior High School (TAMASCO) is a public Senior High School established in 1951. It is located in the newly created Sagnerigu District and close to the Northern Regional Education Office. It is the first Second Cycle institution in Northern Ghana and a high achieving School for that matter

The pride of the North, Tamale Senior High has churned out more influential people than most schools in the country. Located in Tamale, the capital of the biggest region in the country, the Northern region, the school proudly and rightly boasts of impeccable records in academics and extracurricular activities

2. Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School (PRESEC)

Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School (PRESEC) is a prestigious secondary boarding school for boys, in Legon, Accra, Ghana. It is number two on the list. It was founded in 1938, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast.

The Basel missionary, 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 tenure to advocate for the establishment of the secondary school.

Motto: In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen

3. Swedru Senior High School

Cadet Corps in Swedru Senior High school, popularly known as Swesco is number three on the list of best cadet corps in Ghana. The school is located in the Central region of Ghana. Sometimes, real army men are those who train these students. You will love to see how these students display during speech day.

4. Opoku Ware School

Opoku Ware School, often referred to as OWASS, is an all-boys high school in Santasi, a suburb of Kumasi, which is the capital of the Ashanti region of Ghana. It is undoubtedly the SHS with the best cadet corps in Kumasi.

It was established in 1952, as one of the five Catholic schools in Ghana that year. The school was named after Asante King Opoku Ware I.

Founded: 1952

Motto: Deus Lux Scientiae

Color: Blue

5. Kumasi High School

Kumasi High School often referred to as KUHIS, is a boys’ senior high school in the Ashanti region of Ghana.

It was established in 1962, by S. K. Amoah. The students are known collectively as Mmerantee. It is located in Gyinyase near Ahinsan Estate. The motto of the school is Truth conquers.

Motto: Truth conquers.

School Colour(s): Peach (Joff Shirt)

6. Prempeh College

Prempeh College is a public secondary 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.

Prempeh College was founded through a collaboration between the Kumasi Traditional Council, the Presbyterian and Methodist churches in the then Gold Coast, and the British Colonial Government.

Motto: Akan: Suban ne Nimdeε (Character and Integrity)

School Colours: Green and Gold.

7. Sunyani Senior High School

Sunyani Senior High School (SUSEC) is a coeducational second-cycle institution in Sunyani in the Bono Region of Ghana.

Sunyani Senior High was established in 1958 by Ghana’s first President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

8. Adisadel College

Adisadel College, popularly known as “ADISCO”, is an Anglican boys’ boarding school in Cape Coast, Ghana. Key aspects of the school’s administration and curriculum were originally modelled on the English public school system during the colonial era.

The present curriculum falls within the Senior High School system in Ghana, with overall oversight by the Ghana Education Service. The word “Adisco” is a portmanteau of “Adisadel” and “College”. The school is named after what used to be a small village on the outskirts of the Cape Coast township – Adisadel Village.

In recent times, the village has expanded considerably and gradually merged imperceptibly with the main township.

Motto: Vel Primus Vel Cum Primis (Either the first or with the first)

Year Founded: 1910

Scool Colors: Black and White

9. Mfantsipim School

Mfantsipim is an all-boys boarding secondary school in Cape Coast, Ghana. It was established by the Methodist Church in 1876 to foster intellectual, moral, and spiritual growth on the then Gold Coast.

Its founding name was Wesleyan High School and the first headmaster was James Picot, a French scholar, who was only 18 years old on his appointment.

Mfantsipim is nicknamed “The School” by its old boys for the fact that several other schools in Ghana such as Prempeh College were born out of it, as these schools were started with students from Mfantsipim.

Year Founded: 1876

Motto: Dwen Hwɛ Kan

10. Ghana Senior High, Koforidua

Ghana Senior High School, Koforidua, popularly known as GHANASS, is a high school in Koforidua. It was preceded by the establishment of two colleges that ultimately combined into what is currently known as The Beacon of the East.

In 1943, Mr. Fred Addae and Mr. Francis Adjei Tetebo established a school with an initial population of 16 boys called Phoenix College in a private temporary building. By 1950, an increase in student population necessitated the movement of the school into a new location that currently houses the Normal Technical Institute, Koforidua.

The change in location brought in its wake a change in the school’s name from Phoenix College to Christ College. The location of the premises had to change again after some time to respond to the increasing student population.

Thus, the school moved into Effiduase where it was housed at the current premises of Effiduase Police Quarters in Koforidua, Ghana.

This was made possible by the efforts of Rev. Dr. Nimako, the first MP for New Juaben Constituency, Mr. WT Wutor, a contractor, and Nana Frempong Mposo II, the then chief of Effiduase. During this period, Mr. Francis Adjei Tetebo was the Principal of the college. Mr. Fred Addae the headmaster had then died.