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Serwaa Kesse Girls' Senior High School is a female public school located in
Duayaw Nkwanta Duayaw Nkwanta is a town and the capital of Tano North Municipal District, a municipal in the Ahafo Region of Ghana. It is located close to Sunyani, the capital of Bono Region.arrow=dnf&_=44&r=10&rlv=towns Tano North Municipal- Brong-Ahafo Regio ...
in the
Tano North Municipal District Tano North Municipal District is one of the six districts in Ahafo Region, Ghana. It was formerly part of the then-larger Tano District since 1988, until the western part of the district was split off to create Tano North District in December 200 ...
in the
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of
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. In September 2022, they emerged as winners in the 2022 National Business Pitch Competition which was held in Accra.


History

The school was established in 1965 initially as a Women's Training College by Kwame Nkrumah. On 15 August 1970, it was changed into a mixed public secondary school and named as Duayaw Nkwanta Secondary School. Finally in 2003, it was converted into a female senior high and renamed into its current name. The school was named after the First Queen mother of the Duayaw-Nkwanta Traditional Area. In 2013, the headmistress of the school was Doris Bainn. In 2018, the headmistress of the school was Mrs. Doris Cobbinah. In 2019, the school took part in the qualifying stage of the National Science and Math Quiz.


Junior Achievement award

In 2022, the school took part in the National Business Pitch Competition organized by the Junior Achievement
Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
. It was hosted by the Academic City University College in Accra. The competition brought together 16 schools across Ghana. Serwaa Kesse Girls'
Senior High School A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...
emerged the winner.


Achievements

* 2016 National Debate Champions * Ahafo regional Soccer and Volleyball champions * Handball 2012-2016


Philanthropy

In March 2018, the management and students of the school donated assorted items to the inmates of the Sunyani Female Prisons. They presented items such as biscuits, detergents, bags of rice, sanitary pads, clothing, sugar and cooking oil.


References

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