TOP 6 BEST STEM SHS IN GHANA

The Government of Ghana in collaboration with the Education Ministry has introduced a new module called STEM to re-enforce learners to apply in-depth knowledge of theories in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Below are some selected Senior High Schools that run the STEM programme in the country for now.

The seven new schools are located at Kwadaso, Dabaa, Awaso, Abomosu, Akrodie, Weija and Kpasenkpe. Seven (7) out of the nine (9) schools are proposed science-focused schools, with the other two being the first-ever Creative Arts School, Kwadaso, in Kumasi, and a Senior High Technical School at Dabaa.

6. Ghana-Lebanon Islamic School

Ghana-Lebanon Islamic School Complex (GLIS) was founded in January 2000 and commissioned on May 19, 2001. The school is owned by the Ghana Islamic Society for Education and Reformation (GISER). It started as Ghana-Lebanon Islamic Secondary School (GLISS) with Science and Business as the pioneering programmes. 

GLIS was established in pursuance of society’s objective to provide quality education and unquestionable moral training and discipline to the Muslim youth in Ghana. With the foresight and determination to provide quality education, GISER decided to broaden the school’s academic horizons by introducing more programmes such as General Arts and Visual Arts.

The mission of the school is to provide total quality education in a disciplined, morally, and Islamically sound environment. The school also hopes to empower students to acquire, demonstrate, and value knowledge and skills that will support them everywhere across the world.

5. Kpasenkpe STEM School

This school is a STEM study centre at Awaso on the North West side of the Northern region with modern learning facilities. The school was built in 2002 and is still undergoing construction but it is on track to be one of the best STEM schools in the country. The school is the first STEM school in Ghana to admit only girls.

This school is called a model school because it is well equipped with a full complement of facilities, from playing fields to administrative buildings and libraries. The E-block of the school has only twelve (12) classrooms, and the V-Block has twenty-four classrooms, and there is still room for expansion.

4. Abomoso STEM School

Abomoso STEM School was inaugurated by President Akufo-Addo in 2022. The school is located at Abomosu situated in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern region of Ghana.

 The school is one of the nine model schools constructed by the government and has a full complement of amenities such as laboratories, teachers and staff flat, principal’s residence, administration block, two-storey dormitory block, dining hall with kitchen, creative arts block with ancillary facilities, 4-story classroom block among other facilities. Abomoso is a Senior High School equipped with V- blocks, 24 units and 29 classrooms with a standard ICT lab to accommodate the STEM programme.

The school which was built to promote and advance science and technology education would equip students in the area of STEM and Art disciplines through interactive teaching and learning using the state-of-the-art facilities in the school

3. Bosomtwe Girls STEM School

Bosomtwe town of the Ashanti region has registered one STEM study centre which is well equipped to meet the requisite demand of learners. The first batch of students reported to school in April 2022. The school admits students from all over the country and is soon becoming a national institution of excellence.

The school’s vision is to be one of the best IT training leaders in engineering, leaders in aviation, and leaders in medical sciences. The school has some of the best infrastructure and is well-equipped with modern facilities and some of the best equipment. The construction of  Bosomtwe Girls STEM High School is part of the government’s efforts to encourage girls to participate in science and technology-related programs.

The Bosomtwe Girls STEM High School in the Ashanti region was purposely built to further the learning of science and technology among young girls to empower the girl-child in the area of science, engineering, maths and technology. Upon completion, the school will have seven science laboratories.

2. STEM Centre at Accra Senior High School

The STEM Centre at Accra Senior High School was inaugurated in November 2022. It was constructed in collaboration with the Israeli government.  The Centre is managed by 12 STEM coordinators and teachers specially trained in Israel.

The centre trains both basic and second-cycle school learners in the use of modern equipment to promote Science and Arts education. This study centre has admitted more than 2,000 students to run the STEM programme. The facility is fitted with modern equipment to aid effective science education teaching and learning.

 The STEM Centre at Accra Senior High School has been working tirelessly to produce students who would be innovative and critical in their thinking to solve problems for national development.

1. AFRICA SCIENCE ACADEMY

The African Science Academy (ASA) is a girls-only Advanced Level school for maths and science, founded by African Gifted Foundation. Established in 2016, ASA is a boarding school with outstanding maths and science potential for young women from across Africa. African Science Academy is located at Tema Community 6 in Accra.

Students of ASA complete globally respected Cambridge International A-Levels in Maths, Further Maths and Physics in one academic year. The school also provides students with robotics and computer science programmes alongside their A-Levels to prepare them for careers in Engineering, Science, Computing and more. Means-tested scholarships and bursaries are also available to all students.

Africa Science Academy is one of the leading STEM schools in Ghana and Africa. Their students come from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds across Africa – without the intervention of ASA, their incredible talents would be wasted simply because they could not afford their education.

ASA also trains teachers and has over the years trained 200 teachers across Ghana, benefitting 15,000 school children and improving STEM education across the country. Students who completed ASA have won many international scholarships and have gone on to study at leading universities across Africa and around the world.