 Until 1949, there was no government-assisted secondary school in Ashanti region and the northern sector of Ghana.Most students had to travel to the coastal areas of Ghana to attend established schools such as Achimota School, Mfantsipim school and others.In the early 1940s, the British Colonial Government invited the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches, which had already established institutions such as Wesley Girls High School and the Presbyterian Boys Secondary school in Krobo Odumase based on their experience, to help set up a school in the middle belt of Ghana to serve the northern sector of the country.