Oti Boateng Senior High
OBOSS
Key school facts
- Category
- B
- School code
- 0020105
- Gender
- Mixed
- Residential
- Day & Boarding
- Established
- 1991
About Oti Boateng Senior High
Oti Boateng Senior High, widely known as OBOSS, emerged from the educational reforms that reshaped Ghana's school system around the end of the 1980s. The senior secondary school opened in 1991 at Ada-Koforidua and built on an earlier local school history in the community.
The phrase "Knowledge with Integrity" is closely associated with OBOSS. It is a useful standard because knowledge without judgement or honesty is not enough for the kind of responsibility students eventually carry outside school.
OBOSS gives students a choice of Agricultural Science, Business, General Arts, General Science, Home Economics and Visual Arts; the programme pages set out the subjects in each one.
Programmes Offered
6 listedExplore the programmes currently verified for this school.
History
The senior secondary school now known as Oti Boateng Senior High officially opened on 21 January 1991 with 25 students.
The school's published history traces a longer local educational story through Nsukwao and Ada, including the earlier junior secondary school that preceded the senior school.
That background explains why OBOSS is both relatively young as an SHS and rooted in a community whose demand for local education had been building for much longer.
The important date for the current school is 1991, but the school did not appear from nowhere. It grew out of earlier efforts to keep education accessible within the community.
Academics
Students at Oti Boateng Senior High can choose Agricultural Science, Business, General Arts, General Science, Home Economics and Visual Arts.
The school's departments give those programme names a practical shape. Agricultural Science includes hands-on work, while Visual Arts and Home Economics have their own practical and creative demands.
The subjects within Agricultural Science are set out in the Agricultural Science guide; check them before choosing OBOSS.
Admissions & Entry Guidance
Entry to Oti Boateng Senior High starts with the choices you make after BECE. When choosing OBOSS after BECE, compare the subjects in Agricultural Science, Business, General Arts, General Science, Home Economics and Visual Arts.
Past OBOSS cut-offs may be useful for comparison, but do not rely on them as a fixed admission mark.
OBOSS has day and boarding students, but your placement will say which applies to you. Read it on the CSSPS website.
School placement is managed through CSSPS.
Facilities
Public school profiles list classrooms, a science laboratory and a computer laboratory among OBOSS's facilities. The school also operates boarding for both boys and girls.
The school's academic pages describe practical science, ICT, agriculture, Home Economics and Visual Arts work, giving you a useful reminder that facilities are not separate from the curriculum.
Student Life
OBOSS gives students several routes into life beyond lessons, including debate, public speaking, cadet activities, sport and student leadership.
The school's own student-life material describes prefect, SRC, house and club leadership structures alongside football, athletics, basketball and other activities.
Accommodation
Oti Boateng Senior High runs day and boarding arrangements. Day students leave after school activities, while OBOSS boarders continue with meals and evening study on campus.
Check the wording on your OBOSS placement so you know whether to prepare for day or boarding school.