Juaben Senior High School, also known as Juaben SHS, formerly Juaben Secondary School, is a

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Juaben Juaben is a small town in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipal District, a district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.Ejisu-Juaben District Ejisu-Juaben Municipal District is a former district that was located in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly on 10 March 1989 when it was known as Ejisu-Juaben District which was created from the forme ...

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History

The school opened with the name Juaben Secondary School in November 1972, starting with 87 students. It had originally been opened in 1950 as a model Girl's Basic School, and was converted to a Women's Training College in October, 1962. In 2020, the school won a computing competition for senior high schools in the Ashanti Region called ''Code Afrique'', which had been organised by

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Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is a public University of Ghana that focuses on science and technology. The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is the public university established in the country, as well a ...

Operations

The school is under the

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. The school is located in Ashanti Juaben in the Ejisu Juaben Municipality, about 30 km from Kumasi and about 8 km from Ejisu. The school has about 3861 students, a teaching staff of about 152 and non-teaching staff of around 99 making it 251 staff members. It has a

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facility for its students. The school has about 2979 boarders with some 882 day students. The school offers programmes in general agriculture, general arts,

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. The school has 8 houses with each having about 482 students; the houses are Nana Adarkwa Yiadom, Bishop Asante Antwi, Nana Yaw Sarpong II, Nana Otuo Serebour II for boys and Danielles Ghartey, Sussana Wesley, Rose E. Coker, and Nana Akosua Akyaama II. The school has over the years chocked up a lot of successes in both academics and co-curricular activities in the area of sports, debate, drama, etc.

Notable alumni

* John Amponsah, javelin thrower *

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, lawyer, MP for Bekwai constituency * Nana Appiagyei Dankawoso, vice president Ghana Chamber of commerce, Board Member University of Cape Business School * Charles Kwadwo Fosu, aka

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, musician * Kwame Sarpong Appiah, PhD, Researcher at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology * Morgan Carter, event organizer

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