Adisadel College

One of the oldest secondary schools in Ghana, and was ranked 10th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based on quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, internet and news visibility. Recently, they were ranked among the best senior high schools in Ghana per WAEC standards and is the best senior high school in Cape Coast according to the YEN in 2024.

• Name — Adisadel College • Motto Translation — Either the first or with the first • Location — Adisadel Village • Address — P. O. Box 83 • City — Cape Coast • Region — Central Region • State — Central Region • Postal Code — P.O. Box 83, 00233 Cape Coast • Country — Ghana • Sister School — Mfantsiman Girls' Secondary School • Religious Affiliation — Christianity • Denomination — Anglican • Affiliation — Anglican Church, Ghana • Founder — Nathaniel Temple Hamlyn • Head Label — Headmaster • Head — Samuel Agudogo • Faculty — 4 • Staff — 98 teachers • Avg Class Size — 60 • Gender — Boys • Lower Age — 14 • Upper Age — 18+ • Houses — 12 • Schooltype — All Boys School • Type — Missionary funding, Public High School • Enrolment — c. 3000 • Campus — 2; Leopoldville & Katanga • Athletics — Yes • Slogan — Play Up Santaclausians • Song — Up Santaculausians and Adisadel On the Hill • Motto — "Vel Primus Vel Cum Primis" • Rival — Mfantsipim School • Patron — St. Nicholas • Nickname — ADISCO • Colours — Black and White • Mascot — Zebra • Newspaper — Owl • Alumni — Adisadel Old Boys Association (AOBA) • Alumni Name — Santaclausians • Website — http: www.adisadelcollege.net • Illustration — The main Campus "Santa City"

Adisadel was established in 1910 in a building at Topp Yard, near Christ Church School, which is within the vicinity of Cape Coast Castle. The school began with 29 boys and by 1935, it had expanded to accommodate about 200 pupils. The school buildings were extended in 1950 by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. Student enrolment stood at 545, at the time of the school's Golden Jubilee in 1960. By the time the school celebrated its centenary anniversary in 2010, Adisadel could boast about 1500 boarding students and 93 teachers. The school's original founder was the Rt. Rev. Nathaniel Temple Hamlyn, a missionary who was then Anglican Bishop of Accra between 1908 and 1910. Hamlyn's ambition was to establish a grammar school to educate the sons of Anglicans in the colony, and also create an educational institution which will serve as a training ground for the clergy. Adisadel College is the second-oldest secondary school in Ghana after Mfantsipim School, an arch rival that was established by the Methodist Church in 1876. Adisco is also one of the most famous high schools in sub-Saharan Africa.

The school uniform comprises black-and-white striped shirt and black shorts, directly reflecting the primary colours of the college. The distinctive outfit has earned Adisco students the nickname of "zebra boys". Prior to the introduction of this style of uniform in the 1990s, students of the old Form One to Form Five stream wore blue shirts and brown khaki shorts, while those in Sixth Form wore white shirts and brown shorts. Adisadel College was the first secondary school in the history of Ghana to design special cloaks for its prefects – red for the head prefect, blue for the other prefects, and green for the assistants – and the tradition persists till this day. Not quite the same for the school's cadet corp, where the commander and second-in-command of the cadet have their cloaks in laurel green, and the adjutants and regemental sargeant majors have theirs in royal blue. Their cloaks can be distinguished from the other prefects by their characterist camouflage fabric on the sleeves and collar.

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• Head of State: Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa • Scientists: Ave Kludze, Thomas Mensah, Nii Quaynor • Speakers of Parliament: Rt.Hon Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph, Rt.Hon Ebenezer Sekyi-Hughes • Chief Justices: Justice George Kingsley Acquah, Justice Philip Edward Archer, Justice Edward Kwame Wiredu and Justice Robert John Hayfron-Benjamin(Botswana) • Supreme Court judges: Justice Koi Larbi, Justice Henry K. Prempeh, Justice Charles Hayfron-Benjamin and Justice Anselmus Kludze • Attorney-Generals of Ghana: Edward Nathaniel Moore, Godfred Yeboah Dame

• Name — From — To • G. B. Brown BA — 1910 — 1910 • B. P. Haines MA — 1910 — 1910 • G. B. Brown BA — 1910 — 1912 • Hugh Hare MA(Oxon) — 1913 — 1914 • R. Fisher MA(Cantab) — 1914 — 1918 • W. Hutton Mensah — 1918 — 1924 • S. R. S. Nicholas MA DTh(Durham) — 1924 — 1929 • A. J. Knight MA LLB(Cantab) — 1929 — 1937 • R. D. Hudson MA(Oxon) — 1938 — 1940 • W. G. Harward MA(Oxon) — 1947 — 1952 • A. R. H. Dee MA(Sydney) — 1954 — 1955 • L. W. Fry MA BSc(Oxon) — 1956 — 1958 • T. J. Drury MA(Cantab) — 1959 — 1963 • R. T. Orleans-Pobee BA(Lond) MEd(Springfield) — 1963 — 1974 • E. A. Jonah BA(Legon) — 1974 — 1982 • R. K. Ayitey BA(Ed.) — 1982 — 1991 • J. F. K. Appiah-Cobbold BA PGC. — 1991 — 1995 • J. E. C. Kitson BA PGCE) — 1995 — 2004 • H. K. K. Graham BSc(Hons) PGCE — 2005 — 2014 • William Kusi Yeboah — 2014 — 2019 • Francis Kwame Agbedanu — 2019 — 2020 • Samuel Agudogo — 2021 — Present