About Dormaa SHS

Prior to 1947, education for most of the youth in the Dormaa Traditional Area, and indeed throughout the Western Ashanti, (Brong Ahafo Region from which the present day Bono Region was carved), ended at Standard Seven - that is Middle School Form 4. Only a few could manage to go beyond this level, because there was not a single secondary institution anywhere in the vast area of then Brong Ahafo Region. The Ashanti Confederacy Council had instituted a scholarship scheme for students who wished to have a second cycle education, but unfortunately, no student from Dormaa ever benefitted from that scheme.

Concerned about this, in 1946, two teachers from Dormaa, but working in Kumasi, Joseph Manase Oppong (also known as "Teacher Oppong") and Samuel Kwadwo Yeboah ("Teacher Yeboah"), initiated the move for the establishment of a secondary school in Dormaa Ahenkro. Messrs. J. M. Oppong and S. K. Yeboah spearheaded intensified stakeholder consultations and fund-raising activities throughout the Dormaa State to open the Dormaa State College on Monday, 24th February, 1947, in a wooded storey building (Nua - Abrosan) that belonged to the Dormaa Gyaasehene, Nana Kwasi Baah.