Juaben SHS launches 40th Anniversary

The Juaben Senior High School has launched the  40th Anniversary of its  founding, under the theme: '40 years of Co-education, Challenges and Prospects.'

The Headmaster, Very Rev. Isaac Osei Boadi, said at the launch that the school was established in 1950 as a model Girl's Basic School, to promote girl-child education, following the then Omanhene of the Juaben Traditional area, Nana Yaw Sarpong II's commitment to girl-child education.

As a result, Nana Yaw Sarpong II donated 64-acres of land for the school, and subsequently, lobbied the Methodist Mission to upgrade the Primary School to a Secondary School.

Twelve years after its establishment, it was changed to a Women's Training College in October, 1962, with 27 students and two tutors.

The Training College also existed for only 10 years, and metamorphosed to a mixed secondary school, with the name Juaben Secondary School, with 87 students in November, 1972.

Now the Juaben Senior High School is headed by Very Rev. Isaac Osei Boadi as the fifth substantive Headmaster, and the first Methodist Minister to have headed the school.

The population of the school has seen tremendous changes and increase in enrolment which now stands at 2,235 as at the end of the 2010/2011 academic year, with 370 being day students and 1,865 boarders.

The Very Rev. Isaac Osei Boadi expressed gratitude to past teachers whose dedication ensured the sound academic performance and brought the school to the current height, with most of its products in areas of politics, education, law and other fields of endeavours.

He also expressed gratitude to the government, the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council and the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) Administrator, for providing the school with infrastructural development, including the construction of a 3-storey dormitory block which is ongoing.

The Headmaster also paid glowing tribute to the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) for handing over a toilet facility to the school, as well as a 32-seater toilet facility for the female students, and which project is expected to produce biogas to supplement the energy needs of the school kitchen.

Meanwhile, the Headmaster has outlined some of the major challenges facing the school as being lack of assembly hall, adequate classrooms, and dormitory accommodation for both boys and girls.

Rev. Isaac Osei Boadi indicated that the school urgently needs two additional boreholes to supplement the existing ones, to solve the acute water problem facing the school.