NSMQ Overview


Past Winners
Year Winner 1st Runner up 2nd Runner up
1994 Prempeh College Achimota College
1995 Presbyterian Boys' SHS Opoku Ware SHS
1996 Prempeh College Presbyterian Boys' SHS
1997 Opoku Ware SHS Prempeh College
1998 Achimota College St. Peter's SHS
1999 Mfantsipim School Wesley Girls', Cape Coast
2000 St. Peter's SHS Mfantsipim School
2001 Pope John SHS Ghana SHTS
2002 Opoku Ware SHS St. Peter's SHS
2003 Presbyterian Boys' SHS Opoku Ware SHS
2004 Achimota College St. Peter's SHS
2005 St. Peter's SHS Opoku Ware SHS
2006 Presbyterian Boys' SHS St. Peter's SHS
2007 St. Augustine's College Kumasi Anglican SHS
2008 Presbyterian Boys' SHS Opoku Ware SHS
2009 Presbyterian Boys' SHS Achimota College
2010 No Contest
2011 No Contest
2012 Ghana SHTS St. Francis Xavier
2013 St. Thomas Aquinas Presbyterian Boys' SHS Mfantsiman Girls SHS
2014 Mfantsipim School Ghana SHTS St. Francis Xavier
2015 Prempeh College Adisadel College University Practice SHS
2016 Adisadel College Opoku Ware SHS Mfantsipim School
2017 Prempeh College St. Thomas Aquinas Adisadel College
2018 St. Peter's SHS West Africa SHS Adisadel College
2019 St. Augustine's College Presbyterian Boys' SHS St. Peter's SHS


Points Scored in the new format
No. School 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Total
1 Adisadel College 99 105 216 188 181 192 123 1104
2 Prempeh College 1010
3 Mfantsipim School 956
4 Presbyterian Boys, Legon 846
5 St. Thomas Aquinas 823
6 Opoku Ware School 812
7 University Practice SHS 806
8 St. Peter's SHS 778
9 Kumasi High School 662
10 Wesley Girls SHS 609
11 Ghana SHTS 553
12 Accra Academy 544
13 Keta SHS 541
14 Ghana National College 478
15 Mawuli School 473
16 KNUST SHS 442
17 Mfantsiman Girls SHS 441
18 Tamale SHS 437
19 Koforidua SHTS 433
20 St. Augustine's College 430
21 Achimota College 426
22 St. Francis Xavier 420
23 Ada SHS 406
24 West Africa SHS 401
25 Chemu SHS 377

NB: Preliminary Stages are not included

2013 Play offs were not included

Statistics

Most Final Won
School Number Years
Presbyterian Boys' SHS 5 1995, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009

Most Final Appearance

School Number Years
Presbyterian Boys' SHS 8 1995, 1996, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2019
St. Peter's SHS 8 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2018, 2019

Most Consecutive Finals

School Number Years
Adisadel College 1 2015 - 2018

Performance by schools

School Finals won Years won 1st Runner up 2nd Runner up Finals Appearance
Presbyterian Boys' SHS 5 1995, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009 1996, 2013, 2019 0 8
Prempeh College 4 1994, 1996, 2015, 2017 1997 0 5
St Peter's SHS 3 2000, 2005, 2018 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006 2019 8
Opoku Ware School 2 1997, 2002 1995, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2006 0 7
Achimota College 2 1998, 2004 1994, 2009 0 4
Mfantsipim School 2 1999, 2014 2000 2016 4
St. Augustine's College 2 2007, 2019 0 0 2
Ghana SHTS 1 2010 2001, 2014 0 3
Adisadel College 1 2016 2015 2017, 2018 4
St. Thomas Aquinas 1 2013 2017 0 2
Pope John SHS 1 2001 0 0 1
St. Francis Xavier Jnr Sem 0 0 2010 2014 2
Wesley Girls, Cape Coast 0 0 1999 0 1
Kumasi Anglican SHS 0 0 2007 0 1
West Africa SHS 0 0 2018 0 1
Mfantsiman Girls SHS 0 0 0 2013 1
University Practice SHS 0 0 0 2015 1

Final Success

Only St. Augustine's College have appeared in the Final of the NSMQ more than once with 100% success rate (2007,2019).Serendipity

Pope John SHS have appeared in the Final once and have being victorious on that occasion (2001).Happy chance

7 schools have being in at least one Final, but never won. Only 1 of these have appeared in the Final more than once losing on each occasion.Jinx

St. Francis Xavier (2010, 2014)

Of the 11 schools who have won the trophy only 5 schools have lost more than they have won.Nonachievement

St. Peter's SHS 3 wins (2000,2005,2018) and 5 losses (1998,2002,2004,2006,2019).

Opoku Ware School 2 wins (1997,2002) and 5 losses (1995,2003,2005,2008,2006).

Adisadel College 1 win (2016) and 3 losses (2015,2017,2018).

Ghana Senior Technical School 1 win (2010) and 2 losses (2001,2014).

Of the 11 schools that have won the trophy only Presbyterian Boys attempt to defend the trophy have been successful (2008,2009).Epoch

St. Thomas Aquinas is the only day school to have won the competition (2013).

Achimota College is the only co-educational school to have won the competition (1998, 2004).

Region

Region with the highest number of wins in the Final is Greater Accra with 8 wins shared by 3 schools (Achimota College, Presbyterian Boys', St Thomas Aquinas).Trio

Region with the highest number of finals is also Greater Accra with 14.Record

Two region have provided the highest number of winning schools with 3 each.Cruising

Central Region (Mfantsipim School, St. Augustine's College, Adisadel College).

Greater Accra Region (Achimota College, Presbyterian Boys', St. Thomas Aquinas).

Central Region has also provided the highest number of different finalist, with eight (Mfantsipim School, St. Augustine's College, Adisadel College, Wesley Girls, Mfantsiman Girls, University Practice). Dominant

Only on one occasion has the Final of the competition involved two schools from the same region. (Opoku Ware and Prempeh College in 1997).Familiar

Road to Final

2013

Semi- Final

T I Amass Presec, Legon Prempeh
St. Peters Mfantsiman Adisadel
Accra Academy Aquinas KNUST
Final
62 56 39
2014

Semi- Final

Opoku Ware GSTS Aquinas
Notre Dame Mfantsipim Upss
Ada SHS Francis Xavier Chemu
Final
55 41 28
2015
Semi- Final
Presby Boys' SHS Porter Girls Adisadel
Achimota Accra Academy Prempeh
KSTS Upss Kumasi High
Final
42 39 38
2016

Semi- Final

Ghana National Aquinas Mfantsipim
Accra Academy Kumasi SHTS Adisadel
Kumasi High Opoku Ware St Hubert
Final
44 38 37
2017

Semi- Final

Ghana National Upss Adisadel
Prempeh Mawuli Mfantsipim
Kumasi High Aquinas Presby Boys' SHS
Final
53 51 31
2018

Semi- Final

Mfantsipim Ghana National Adisadel
Mawuli Keta SHS St. Peters
West Africa Krobo Girls Prempeh
Final
45 44 39
2019

Semi- Final

Presby Boys' SHS Opoku Ware Adisadel
Tepa SHS Wesley Girls St. Peters
Keta SHS St Augustine's GSTS
Final
39 34 25

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