Notre Dame Seminary Senior High School is an all male second cycle educational institution founded by Very Rev. Fr. Armand Lebel. The first batch of thirty-one (31) students were admitted on September 16, 1960. It is a day and boarding school. Currently, the school has a population of about 500 students studying either
General Science
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or General Arts. The school is located in
Navrongo
Navrongo is a town and the capital of Kassena-Nankana Municipal District in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana, adjacent to the border with Burkina Faso.
Navrongo is an important market town, known for its cathedral and its grotto. It hou ...
in the
Kasena-Nankana Municipality of the
Upper East Region
The Upper East Region is located in the northern part of Ghana and it is the third smallest of the 16 administrative regions in Ghana. It occupies a total land surface of 8,842 square kilometers, or 2.7% of the total land area of Ghana. The reg ...
of Ghana.
In line with the motto of the School, "Scientia et Fide" (''Knowledge and Faith or Knowledge in the service of Faith'') and the intention of the founding fathers, Notre Dame Seminary SHS seeks to provide an education at the pre-tertiary level by training its students to become "effective channels of God".
History
The School was established by the Catholic Church through by Rev. Father Lebel on 8 July 1960. The School had an initial enrollment of 31 students and was mainly managed by the
Catholic Church
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until 1990 where the
Government of Ghana
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through the
Ghana Education Service
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(GES) took over in 1996.
The current Rector of the School is Rev. Father Vitus Alnaa, a catholic priest. The students' performance in the West African School Certificate Examinations (
WASSCE) has been recorded.
School Courses
Source:
* General Science
* General Arts
School Code
0090505
School Category
Category A
School Facilities
Source:
* Dinning Hall
* Library
* Assembly Hall
* Science Lab
* Dormitory Block
* STA Bungalows
References
High schools in Ghana
Educational institutions established in 1960
Upper East Region
1960 establishments in Ghana
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