Welcome Home: The 2025/2026 Admissions Season at Accra Girls’ SHS

If you’ve ever dreamed of stepping into a sisterhood built on vision, virtue, and excellence, your moment is here. The 2025/2026 admissions at Accra Girls’ Senior High School are underway, and with them comes more than just a place in a top school. It’s an invitation to become part of a legacy.

A Bit About Us: Who We Are & Why AGISS Matters

Nestled in the Ayawaso North Municipality of Greater Accra, Accra Girls’ SHS has stood since 1960 as a beacon of female education. From a humble first intake of 12 students and 5 teachers, the school has blossomed into a thriving institution: today counting thousands of students, with a strong teaching and support staff.

Called “Ladies with Vision and Virtue,” students at AGISS are likened to eagles, encouraged to soar high academically, morally, and socially. Over the years, the school has earned a reputation as a Grade A institution and has produced a host of distinguished alumni across media, law, science, arts, and public service.

Academic life at AGISS is broad and dynamic. You’ll find students in General Science, General Arts, Business, Home Economics, and Visual Arts, each track tailored to nurture both talent and purpose. Classrooms, labs, art studios, library spaces, and IT facilities provide daily opportunities for curiosity, collaboration, and creativity. Outside academics, vibrant clubs, sports, arts, and spiritual life add color, challenge, and companionship.

In short, joining AGISS is more than just school. It’s joining a caring, ambitious, and spirited community.

The Admission Journey: What to Expect

Over the coming weeks, new students and their families will be welcomed into this community through an organized process rooted in clarity, respect, and care.

The admission process kicked off Tuesday, 23 September 2025, at 9:00 AM in the school’s Assembly Hall.
The official reporting for new entrants is on Saturday, 18 October 2025, with a reporting deadline Thursday, 23 October 2025 (by 5:00 PM).
Orientation for new students takes place Friday, 24 October 2025, helping you settle in, meet new friends, learn routines, and get acquainted with campus life.
On the same day that students report (18 October), there’s a parents’ meeting at 11:00 AM in the New Dining Hall, a chance for guardians to meet leadership, ask questions, and understand how to best support your daughter.

For those who might arrive late, it’s important to note that delays risk forfeiting admission, so aim to report within the given window.

When you come to report, bring these essentials so you won’t be delayed:

Personal Record Form (Form D)
BECE results slip
Placement form (signed, stamped by your JHS head), plus two endorsed passport photos
Copy of National Health Insurance card
Birth certificate photocopy
Medical report (from designated hospitals)
Two passport-size photos endorsed by your JHS head
Undertaking and declaration forms (signed by both student and parent)
Sewing kit and approved uniform cloth (check cloth, church cloth, as per school guidelines)

Medical checks must come from one of the recognized hospitals: Maamobi Polyclinic, 37 Military Hospital, or Achimota Hospital. Reports from other facilities will not be accepted.

By bringing everything early, you’ll start your AGISS journey with peace of mind, ready to focus on new friendships, new lessons, and new growth.

Your New Nest: Houses at AGISS

One of the most exciting parts of joining AGISS is becoming part of a house. This is a smaller community within the larger school, where you’ll build deeper belonging, teamwork, competition, and house pride.

Currently, there are five houses:

Buckman House
Gibson House
Aryee House
Clottey House
Cobbinah House

Each house carries its own history and identity. For example, Gibson House is named in honor of Mrs. Blanche Gibson, the school’s first headmistress.

When you arrive, you’ll be assigned to one of these houses, and that becomes part of who you are in AGISS. You’ll compete in inter-house sports, debates, drama, and academic challenges. You’ll have house meetings, mentors, and seniors from your house to guide you. The house becomes a smaller family within the wider school.

Being in a house means you’ll have an instant circle: people you share lunchtime with, cheer with, study with, and grow with.

What It Feels Like: A Taste of Student Life

Close your eyes and imagine stepping onto campus early in the morning, the hum of laughter, uniforms fresh, morning assembly stirring your sense of purpose. You’ll see older girls in crisp green-check cloth, walking purposefully to class. You’ll feel that quiet nervous thrill as you walk into a dormitory, choose a bunk, meet your roommate, unpack your books, and arrange your things.

In class, teachers will treat you as more than a student, as a thinker, as a voice, as someone who can contribute. In labs or studios or group work, you’ll experiment, express, ask, and sometimes even fail, but learn. In the afternoons, you might hurry to club room meetings, sports fields, choir practice, or rehearsals.

Mealtime will be a time of laughter, chatter, and sharing. Stories of home, worries, jokes, and plans will fill the air. At night, dorm lights go dim, you chat quietly with neighbors, review your notes, maybe read a book late, whisper about tomorrow’s test, and finally drift to sleep, dreaming of what tomorrow may bring.

Yes, there will be tough days: homesickness, early alarms, heavy assignments, tests, discipline. But you won’t walk them alone. You’ll have housemates, classmates, prefects, teachers, counselors, and older students to support you.

By the end of your first week, you’ll look back and say, “I’m home.”

How to Make the Most of It: Tips Before You Arrive

Attend orientation with an open mind: ask questions, introduce yourself, take in every detail.
Get your uniform and sewing done early so you won’t fall behind.
Connect with your future housemates if possible, even before arrival.
Pack light but wisely: a notebook, comfortable shoes, a small envelope for important documents.
Mentally shift from “I’m new” to “I belong.” It helps to step forward and try: join clubs, talk to people, volunteer.
Keep your books, and important documents safely stored, since boarding life comes with vigilance.
Take care of your body and spirit: rest, eat well, pray or meditate, and build good habits from day one.

Final Word: Your Next Chapter Begins

To you, future “Eagle,” the halls of Accra Girls await your footsteps. A community where you will be known, where your potential is expected, and where your dreams are given soil to grow. As the 2025/2026 admissions season unfolds, may you approach it with courage, hope, and anticipation.