Northern Star SHS Scores 83% In 2018 WASSCE

Northern Star Senior High School in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West has scored 83% in the 20018 West African Secondary Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Out of 65 students presented, 54 of them passed in one or more of the subjects they sat for, with 4 students passing in all 8 subjects they sat.

In an interview with the Headmaster of the school, Mr. Saeed A. Faruk, he expressed gratitude to teachers for their commitment and dedication which resulted in the results produced. He equally thanked regional and municipal directors of education for posting staff to the school and always attending to the needs of the school.

The headmaster however said the results could be much better if they had gotten a qualified English Language teacher for the period. He therefore appealed for an English Language teacher for the school.

Northern Star SHS was established in 2012 by a community-based NGO in Wa Municipality known as Bambu Foundation, with the aim of augmenting the efforts of government in providing quality and accessible second cycle education to Junior High School graduates. In 2016, the school was absorbed by the Ghana Education Service as a public school.

The 2018 WASSCE is the first of the school since it became a public school.

The headmaster further called for infrastructural support from the government and benevolent bodies to enable them provide effective and efficient education to the students.

Story by Denis Andaban