Aburi Girls Senior High School was formally established as a secondary school for girls in the year 1946.
However, its origin dates as far back as 1852, when the Basel Mission opened a school at primary level for girls at their mission station inside the town.
The primary school continued until its takeover by the Scottish Mission during the First World War.
In the 1920s the training of teachers was begun alongside a kindergarten section and a middle school, also for girls, and in 1946, secondary classes were introduced side by side with the teacher-training course.
In 1950 the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) took over the Management of the school when its partner missions the Basel Mission and the Scottish Mission left.
The secondary school was physically separated from the teacher training classes and moved to its present site on its present site on the outskirts of Aburi in 1954.
Classes ran from Form 1 to Form 5 until 1958, when a Sixth Form was added. Presently the 3-year Senior High School system is run.
In 1972, the Methodist Training College located on the southern side of the school was closing down so Mrs. Joyce Asibey, the first Ghanaian Headmistress initiated negotiations with the Methodist Church to acquire the college premises for the school.
The compound had a dining hall, dormitory and classrooms and so it was used to house form one students.
This was done to reduce the incidence of bullying. Due to the increase in numbers in the 1990s, this arrangement was stopped and the old “Metico” building is now bonafide house known as Irene Anderson House just as the entire compound.
Source: misociallife.com
