St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School
Front view of St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School
Location
Cantonments Street Osu, Accra, Greater Accra Region Ghana
Coordinates	6°39′47″N 1°38′42″W / 6.663°N 1.645°W / 6.663; -1.645
Information
Type	Public senior high day school
Motto	Veritas Liberat (The truth shall set you free)
Patron saint(s)	Saint Thomas Aquinas
Established	15 January 1952 (72 years ago) (1952-01-15)
Head of school	Paul Kwesi Amoasi Baidoo
Grades	Senior secondary years 1–3
Gender	Boys
Number of students	2100[citation needed]
Campus size	1000 by 100 square meters
Campus type	Suburban
Houses	4
Color(s)	blue and yellow
Slogan	Beebɛ
Song	"We students of Aquinas, in striving for perfection"
Athletics	Basketball, soccer, short- and long-distance sprinting and handball
Affiliation	Roman Catholic Church
Website	www.saintaquinasschool.com

St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School is a Ghanaian public day senior high school for boys in the Osu district of Accra in the Greater Accra Region. It was established in 1952. The school is currently located in Cantonments, a suburb of Accra. It was established to provide education for boys of the Accra Archdiocese of the Catholic church whose parents could not afford the cost of sending their male children to expensive boarding schools.

Location

In September 1963, the school relocated to its present, permanent site at Cantonment Street, Osu.

The school is situated opposite the European Union offices and the Civil Service Training School, laying between the Cantonment Police Station to its south and the Embassy of Togo to its north, with close proximity to the prime area of the commercial and administrative hub of Osu's Oxford Street.

Academics

The school runs nine streams and five academic programmes.

Programs

Business

Agriculture

Visual arts

General arts

General science

Affiliation

Aquinas has ties with its sister school, Accra Girls Senior High School, with a strong bond of students' association, which is aimed at sharing entertainments, social activities, and educational exchange, called STAAGA (St. Thomas Aquinas Accra Girls Association).

Motto and slogan

The school's motto is Veritas Liberat, meaning "The truth sets you free", is a Latin variant of Veritas vos liberabit from the Gospel of John chapter 8 verse 32.

Its slogan is "beebɛ", a word in Ghana's native Ga language, meaning "There is no time to waste " or "waste no time".

Awards

For three consecutive years, 1972, 1973, 1974, the school led West Africa in the Advanced Level Certificate Examination according to statistical figures from the Education Ministry. In 2004, the school won the world cadet championship held in London. In 2013, the school was deemed the Overall Best High School in Ghana.^{[citation needed]} The same year, 2013, the school won the National Science and Maths Quiz Competition.

The school won the National Science and Maths Quiz in 2013. St. Thomas Aquinas SHS is the only exclusively day school to have won the trophy.

In 2013, the school came first in the maiden edition of the Science and Technology Fair organized by the Young Educators Foundation (YEF), an education oriented non-governmental organization. In 2017, the school won the National Science and Technology Fair now sponsored by the government after a four-year hiatus.^{[citation needed]}

The school won the Moot Court Competition for the first time the program was introduced to the second educational cycle.^{[citation needed]}

The school emerged winners of the 2019 Gender Inequality Debate.^{[citation needed]}

Chronological list of headmasters

Notable alumni

• Professor John Owusu Gyapong Vice Chancellor, The University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho and Former Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana, Legon
• Professor George Hagan – academic and Politician (Convention People's Party's presidential candidate, 2000 general elections, Ghana)
• Professor Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies
• Professor Nii Ashie Kotey – academic and justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2018–2023) and Former Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission of Ghana, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon and Acting Director of the Ghana School of Law.
• Rt. Rev. D. S. M. Torto (1978 year group) – bishop, Anglican Diocese of Accra
• Most Rev.Vincent Boi-Nai – Catholic Bishop of Yendi Diocese
• Sylvester A. Mensah
• Lord Oblitey Commey - Politician and Director of Operations at The Flagstaff House, the official residence and office of the President of Ghana
• Benjamin Narteh Ayiku - Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku Constituency
• DJ Vyrusky Kofi Amoako - Official DJ of Shatta Wale and Lynx Entertainment
• Laud Quartey - footballer
• Elijah Amoo Addo - Chef and food stylist
• Yaw Amankwah Mireku - Former Hearts of Oak and Black Stars Player.
• Abel Manomey - Former Great Olympics and Dreams Player.^[2]