Our North America Alumni Network
Ketasco Alumni of North America Inc. is incorporated in the state of New York and attained its 501c3 status in July of 2016. This association aims to bring all students, tutors, and others who had something to do with Keta Senior High school, to pull resources together to enhance teaching and learning at the school.
The Alumni organization also seeks to link Ketasco with leading educational institutions in the USA to bring about cross-cultural exchanges between the two entities.
Our Message
As successors, we find it imperative to take up this mantle and invite all those who have that philanthropic spirit to rally to our cause to make the school greater than when we met and left it.
Our clarion call is not limited to those who attended Ketasco but to all who love to see education and progress thrive in an environment of scarce resources.
About Our School
Keta Senior High Technical School
Keta Senior High Technical School (Ketasco) formerly Keta Secondary School is a mixed Public Senior High School located at Dzelukope a town in the Keta Municipal District of the Volta Region, Ghana.
The school has a student population of about 3,515 and a teaching staff strength of 150 as of 2020. Ketasco is the biggest school in the Volta Region and one of the biggest in Ghana.
The motto of the school is DZO LALI with the slogan Now or Never. The Eagle at the main gate is to remind students to always be like the Eagle.
1953
Year Established
22
Pioneer Students
3494
Student Population
12
Headmasters
Our History
From a humble beginning of twenty-five students on rented premises, it has grown into one large formidable institution of learning whose name reverberates in both national and international circles, far beyond the wildest dreams and visions of the founding fathers.
It all started on the 27th of February 1953, when some prominent personalities were commissioned to start a day institution that would serve as a catchment school for the hosts of elementary schools scattered all over this area of the country. It was, therefore, on that fateful day that the school started with Mr. Nathan Quao, as its founding headmaster, in a rented house just opposite the premises of the present Electricity Company, Dzelukope.
It was there in the house of the Kudzawus that it remained for eight years. It was not until 1961 that the school moved to its present and a permanent site near the government residential area.
Approval for the new site for the school came when Mr. J.W. Abruquah was the headmaster of the school and Mr. C.H. Chapman were the Regional Commission for the Volta Region and a member of the school’s Board of Governors. Under the pressure from the governing board, the Government decided to hand over the management of the school to the Ghana Education Trust.
Before then, the chairman of the Board, Rev. Dr. F.K. Fiawoo, had remarked that he would not accept “a meagre sum for the construction of a hut” for the school when the school was voted an amount regarded by many as a mere pittance, in view of existing price levels, for the construction of the school building at the new site. After some negotiations, the Ghana Education Trust Fund, established by the Kwame Nkrumah government took over the construction of the buildings.
On November 4th 1960, just a few months after Ghana had changed her academic year, Mr. K.A. Gbedemah, the then Minister of Finance, visited the present site and laid the foundation stone for the building of some school blocks. As a follow-up to that visit, the then president of the Republic, the great Dr. Kwame Nkrumah himself adorned the scenery of the compound with a visit on 21st December 1960 during which he planted an Indian almond tree that still stands as a historical monument and provides a comforting shade near the present Assistant Headmaster’s bungalow.
The initial foundation laying ceremony bore fruits just a year later when a group of students in Forms Two and Four moved from the old to the present site on 11th September 1961.
The site accommodated one classroom block, an administration block, an assembly hall, and science laboratory. The rest of the students followed a year later. Mr. R.E.K. Matanawui, the then Assistant Headmaster mooted the idea of establishing a hostel after having realized that a group of students, who had travelled from far-off places to the school in pursuit of the ‘golden fleece’ (knowledge), had no place to lay their heads. The school was then a day school.
The students sought refuge in the dining hall which was the one building partially vacant. By that time, it was becoming increasingly clear that for the school to continue pursuing its educational goals and providing the needed tutelage for the diverse categories of its pupils, especially those who hailed from outside the district and the region, provisions must be made for some form of residential accommodation.
But that was not to be until another chapter was opened in the annals of the school in 1967 with the admission of the first batch of Sixth Form pupils comprising 28 boys and 3 girls. That decision brought in its wake the introduction of boarding facilities. Ever since the school has admitted both day and boarding students.
