Kinbu SHS call for relocation of school

Kinbu Senior High School on Thursday appealed to the Ministry of Education to urgently consider re-locating the school as activities of traders are interrupting academic work.

The school, situated at a very busy business center in Accra, is now at the mercy of traders, hawkers and drivers, the Ghana News Agency observed on Thursday.

Some of the students also called on the Accra Metropolitan Authority and traditional leaders in the region to come to aid of the school.

A student said the school could only develop if it is relocated because there is no land for basic development projects including recreational facilities.

Due to lack of space, the school has a small canteen which runs a shift system for the students. Students go out for breakfast and lunch in batches, third and second years go first followed by the first year students.

Kinbu SHS, formerly Kinbu Secondary Technical School, was established in 1874.

The school was set up to for mulattoes who found it difficult to mix with the whites and felt more comfortable with indigenous people.

During the colonial era, it was called government Boys’ Senior School (Rowe-Road's School and later became Kinbu Middle Boys’ School).

With the introduction of the Educational Reform Programme in 1976, the Kinbu Middle Boys’ School faced was made one of the first 10n Experimental Junior Secondary Schools as a pilot programme in Ghana.

Currently, it offers science, technical science, metalwork, woodwork, building construction, visual arts, home economics, general arts and business.