The Accra Academy is the first private Academy to be established in the then Gold Coast

Gold Coast (British colony)

The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.-Overview:The first Europeans to arrive at the coast were the Portuguese in 1471. They encountered a variety of African kingdoms, some of which controlled substantial...

 now Ghana

Ghana

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. The Academy is one of the foremost secondary educational institutions

Secondary school

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 in Ghana today and currently operates as a non-denominational

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 Day

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 and Boarding

Boarding school

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 Boys School

Single-sex education

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, located at Bubuashie in the Greater Accra Region

Greater Accra Region

The Greater Accra Region is the smallest of Ghana's 10 administrative regions in terms of area, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres or 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana...

. The Academy runs courses in Business, Science, General Arts

ARts

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 and Visual Arts

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 leading to the award of a West African Senior High School Certificate.

The founders of the Accra Academy sought to provide excellent and affordable tuition to students who were apt to acquire a secondary grade

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 education, but who did not have sufficient financial support to enable them do so.