Senior High Schools in Ghana usually have three uniforms: school clothes, house dress, and the main school uniform. The school cloth is mostly worn by students when they go for religious programmes, the house cloth is also worn when students return from class back to the boarding house and the main school uniform is worn when students go to class or for other official events.
Students usually also have a sports uniform which comes in different colours representing different boarding houses and sometimes a school jacket/tracksuit worn over the other uniforms and a ceremonial dress worn during occasions instead of the main school uniform. Determining the best senior high school uniforms is no easy task because there are hundreds of senior high schools in Ghana and beauty, they say lies in the eye of the beholder.
Does your school’s uniform look as beautiful as these top ten shs uniforms or it is part of the top 10? If you agree with this ranking, be sure to give the video a thumbs up and if you do not agree, tell us at the end of the video which uniform you think is the most beautiful in the comments.
1. St. Mary’s Senior High School
St. Mary’s Senior High School is an all-female second-cycle institution in Korle Gonno in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. St. Mary’s Senior High School was established on 6 February 1950 by Catholic missionary sisters.
St. Mary’s Senior High School has the most beautiful senior high school uniform in Ghana fashioned after the school’s colours, blue and white. The main school uniform consists of a white shirt and blue skirt with white patterns and the school cloth is also white with blue stripes. The school’s uniform is simple in its elegant and beautiful design which distinguishes students of St. Mary’s Senior High School from other students at interschool events.
2. Holy Child Senior High School
Holy Child School, also known as Angel’s Hill, is an all-girls boarding second-cycle institution in Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana.
Their uniform is the second most beautiful senior high school uniform in Ghana, designed with the school’s colours, yellow and brown. The main school uniform is a yellow short sleeved shirt and brown skirt/trousers, while the church cloth is a beautiful pattern of the school’s crest and a cross of yellow and brown.
3. Ghana National College
Ghana National College is a senior high school in Cape Coast, Ghana founded on 20 July 1948. The school’s uniforms are beautifully designed to match the school’s colours, maroon, green and cream. The maroon jacket with green edges is worn over a skirt/trousers and a top of either white or black. Without a doubt, the school’s uniform is unique among senior high school uniforms in Ghana and sets it apart from others.
4. Adisadel College
Adisadel College, popularly known as “Adisco”, is an Anglican boys’ boarding school in Cape Coast, Ghana. Adisadel College is one of the oldest senior high schools in Ghana. The school’s colours, black and white are used to design a striped uniform, which is very beautiful and reminiscent of a zebra.
The school uniform comprises a black-and-white striped shirt and black shorts, directly reflecting the primary colours of the college. The distinctive outfit has earned Adisco students the nickname of “zebra boys”.
Adisadel College was the first secondary school in the history of Ghana to design special cloaks for its prefects – red for the head prefect, blue for the other prefects, and green for the assistants – and the tradition persists to this day.
5. Wesley Girls Senior High School
Wesley Girls’ High School (WGHS) is an educational institution for girls in Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana. It was founded in 1836 by Harriet Wrigley, the wife of a Methodist minister. The school is named after the founder of Methodism, John Wesley. The school’s uniform is fashioned after the school’s colours: yellow and green.
6. Aburi Girls Senior High School
Aburi Girls’ Senior High School, formerly Aburi Girls’ Secondary School, also known as ABUGISS, is a Presbyterian senior high boarding school for girls located south of Aburi in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
The brother school of Aburi Girls is Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School, known as “PRESEC”. The school’s uniform is made up of two colours: yellow and green.
7. St. Roses Senior High School
St Rose’s Senior High (Rosec or Roses) is a public Catholic high school for girls, located in Akwatia in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The second-cycle high school was founded in 1965 by the Dominican Sisters. The school’s colours are white and blue as is evident in the school’s uniform.
8. Achimota Senior High School
Achimota School, formerly the Prince of Wales College and School, is located on a 950-acre campus nine kilometers east of Accra in the Achimota Forest Reserve. The school was founded in 1927 as the country’s first government co-educational boarding institution.
For classes through Monday to Thursday all female students wear a deep green sleeveless dress imprinted with very small and white five-pointed stars bearing a hollow circle in the middle. Although sleeveless, the strands exceed the popular three-finger rule, intended to prevent unnecessary exposure. The approved length for the dress is right below the knee level and female students are similarly expected to finish off the look with a pair of sandals.
On Fridays, whilst all female students except those in their final year are expected to wear the green uniform, final-year students get to wear a white short-sleeved shirt bearing the piano keys emblem, complimented by a red skirt which bears the same pattern of five-pointed hollow stars as the green uniform.
This outfit with the red skirt is popularly referred to by the students as “Bloody Mary.” Once again, the look is finished off with a pair of sandals.
For the boys, the dress code is a well-pressed short-sleeved cotton shirt which is cream in colour. The cream shirt is complimented by a pair of khaki shorts ending right on top of the knee or at the middle of the kneecaps, often seen sharply pressed with a straight crease shooting down the length of the shorts from the single pleats in the front. The look of an Achimota school boy is closed off with a pair of sandals, either brown or black, but mandated to match the colour of the belt.
9. Mfantsiman Senior High School
Mfantsiman Girls’ Senior High School is an all-girls second-cycle institution in Saltpond in the Central Region of Ghana. The school was founded in 1960 by Kwame Nkrumah, originally under the name Saltpond Girls’ Secondary School. The school is also known as ‘Syte’. The school’s colours are mauve and white. The school’s crest features an eagle, a straw basket, an eagle’s claw, and a woman seated on an elephant.
10. Yaa Asantewa Girls Senior High School
Yaa Asantewaa Girls Senior High School is one of the few Girls’ Secondary Schools in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The school was established in Kumasi in 1959 as part of the rapid Education expansion project pioneered by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The student population is about 2,400 occupying a total land area of about 168.3 acres.
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