St. Francis

This is the school I was working with for the past week. It is a public senior high school with around 1300 students. Most of the public schools on Ghana have a large number of students that board at school because they are from a different part of Ghana. When students are fine with junior high, they take a test to determine what senior high school they can go to and what their concentration at that high school will be (science, arts, humanities, etc). A student living in the Northern region may have to go to school on the other side of the country. 

Teachers do not apply to a specific school, but are posted to a school that has an opening. Teachers do not get to choose where they ate posted. 

This is a chemistry lesson in one of the science labs. 

Above - students eating breakfast in the "cafeteria" 

Below- this is where they make meals for the students. They have fresh bread every day. 

Below- a typical classroom. In Ghanaian schools the teacher switches rooms and the kids stay. Most classes have 30 -60 students per class. 

Below- outside view of the classrooms

Below-this should look familiar to my students. The topics they learn in science are very similar to the ones taught in the U.S.