About - Wesley Grammar Senior High history

In March 1956, the Accra Circuit of the Methodist Church controlled by the Methodist Church in Accra decided to establish a Secondary School within the jurisdiction of the Accra District of the Church to serve as a fulcrum for educating the young ones in the Methodist tradition and in the acquisition of a sound intellectual base which would equip these young ones to assist in the development of the Church and the nation at large. Through the high-level commitment and assiduity of the late Rev. J. E. Addo, a Superintendent Minister of the Methodist Church in Accra, and ably supported by some staunch members of the Church, Mr. Robert Dodoo and Mr. E. Barnett Caulley, the aim of establishing such a school was brought to fruition with the founding of a Secondary School named Wesley Boys High School under the headship of the Late Rev. LHS Osae-Addo. In the early part of 1960, the Gbawe stool, through the intermediation of the then Gbawe Mantse, Nee Aryee Pesemaku II, donated the land known as Ojo Kpakpo Hill, the present site of the school, to the Methodist Church for the re-settlement of the Wesley Grammar School. Initially, the School was located within the premises of the Wharton Memorial Methodist Church behind the Bank of Ghana in Accra. In June 1960, when the first two-storey block was completed, the school moved to its present site. In the same year, the first batch of ‘Product’ to be produced by the school graduated after having written the Cambridge School Certificate Examination in December 1960. The fortunes of the school began to change phenomenally with its absorption into the Public Educational system in 1961. In 1965, another two-storey block was built to house boys. Soon thereafter, a similar block was constructed for the purpose of housing the girls. By the end of the 1960s the school had become a fully-fledged boarding institution with only an insignificant number of day students. For the 2021/2022 academic year, the total number of students is 1963. Out of this number 825 are males and 1138 are females. The boarders are 1037 and the day students are 926.