Chiana Senior High
CHIANASCO
Key school facts
- Category
- C
- School code
- 0090503
- Gender
- Mixed
- Residential
- Day & Boarding
- Established
- 1991
About Chiana Senior High
Chiana Senior High, often called CHIANASCO, is a mixed day-and-boarding school in Kassena-Nankana West in the Upper East Region.
The school started with an agricultural focus and now offers Agricultural Science, Business, Home Economics, Visual Arts, General Arts and General Science.
That growth gives students a much wider choice today than the school had in its early years.
Programmes Offered
6 listedExplore the programmes currently verified for this school.
History
Chiana Senior High was established in 1991 in Chiana. It began with Agricultural Science before adding five more programmes as the school developed.
The school now serves a much broader range of students while keeping agriculture as part of its academic identity.
Academics
Chiana offers Agricultural Science, Business, Home Economics, Visual Arts, General Arts and General Science.
The programme mix now covers scientific, business, creative, practical and humanities routes.
If Visual Arts interests you, SideScholar's Visual Arts guide can help you understand the practical side of the programme.
Admissions & Entry Guidance
If you are coming from JHS, you choose Chiana Senior High and your programme through Ghana's national school-selection and placement system.
Your BECE result matters, but so do the programme you choose and how many places are available.
For official placement results and instructions, use the CSSPS portal.
School placement is managed through CSSPS.
Facilities
Published school information lists classrooms, science laboratories, a library, an ICT laboratory and dormitories.
Those spaces support both classroom learning and practical work across the school's programme mix.
Student Life
Student life at CHIANASCO includes lessons, sport, clubs, boarding-house routines and student leadership.
The school draws students from Chiana and surrounding communities, creating a mixed school community around both day and boarding life.
Accommodation
Chiana Senior High has both day and boarding students.
Boarders stay on campus, while day students return home after lessons and activities.
If you get a place, your placement will show whether you are coming in as a boarder or a day student.