Kintampo Senior High School

Kintampo Senior High School, also known as Great KiNSS, is a co-educational pre-tertiary institution located in Kintampo in the Kintampo North Municipal District in the Bono East Region of Ghana. On 9 March 2021 the school emerged as the overall winners of the pre-independence "What Do You Know" contest in Accra.

History

The School was established on Friday, October 15, 1975 by the Government of Ghana in collaboration with community members. The school started with a student population of thirty-two (32) of which the males were twenty-nine(29) and three (3) females. One Mr. J.B Mensah provided his residence for academic activities of the infant school. The school celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2024

Awards

The school won the 64th edition of the independence Day Quiz in 2021. The school emerged as winners of three (3) schools, namely Bolgatanga Seniot High School, Mawuli Senior High School and I.T Ahmadiyya Senior High School. The competition was held at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC).

Operation

The school is under the Ghana Education Service of the Government of Ghana. The school is located in the heart of Kintampo, alone the Kintampo-Tamale Highway.

The school has a student population of 2,798 and a staff strength of 186 comprising of 134 teaching staff and 54 non-teaching staffs. The school has a boarding facility for student. It has about 1,417 boarding students and 1,381- day students.

The school six (6) programmes namely, General Arts, General Science, Business, Home Science, Agricultural Science and Visual Art.