Opoku Ware School
| Opoku Ware School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Kumasi, Ghana | |
| Information | |
| Type | Public – Senior High |
| Motto | Deus Lux Scientiae |
| Established | 1952 |
| Head of school | Dr. Alexis Frimpong-Nimoh |
| Grades | Senior High Years 1–3 |
| Number of students | 1,500 |
| Color(s) | Blue |
| Mascot | tortise |
| Affiliation | Catholic Church of Ghana |
| Address | P. O. Box 849 Kumasi Ghana |
| School Anthem | "All Hail Opoku Ware School" |
| Website | opokuwaresch.org |
Opoku Ware School, often referred to as OWASS, is a senior high school for boys in the Ashanti region of Ghana. It was established in 1952, as one of the five Catholic schools in Ghana that year. The school was named after Asante King Opoku Ware I. The students are known collectively as Akatakyie, an Asante word meaning "conquering heroes".
It is located in Fankyenebra, near Santasi, along the Kumasi-Obuasi road.
The patron saint of the school is Saint Thomas Aquinas. The motto of the school is "Deus Lux Scientiae", meaning "God is the Light of Knowledge".
The school is governed by a board, who appoints a headmaster. It contains 10 boys houses, each headed by a housemaster, selected from the more senior members of the teaching staff, who number some 60. Almost all the school's pupils go on to universities, about a two-thirds of them to the three premier universities in Ghana, being: University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and University of Cape Coast.
The current headmaster, Dr. Alexis Frimpong-Nimoh is a member of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Senior Secondary schools (CHASS) in Ghana.
OWASS today is a much larger than its inception. In 1952, the school began with 60 boys. This number has significantly risen to over 1,800 boys now.
Opoku Ware School was the first Catholic boys School in the Asante Kingdom. Although it is the Second all boys school in the region.Until its establishment, youth from the Ashanti Kingdom and the Northern part of Ghana who wanted Catholic education had to travel south across the Pra River to attend secondary schools.
This meant that members of the Catholic Church who wished to have their children educated in accordance with Catholic traditions had to send them to St. Augustine's College or Holy Child College, both in Cape Coast.
The original plan to establish a secondary school in the Kingdom at the initiation of the King, called for one school jointly with the Catholic Church, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches. The Catholic Church opted out of it and asked the King's blessing for the establishment of a separate school for the Catholics.
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