Brief Profile
The Accra Academy was founded on Monday, 20th July, 1931 by four young men all below thirty years of age to satisfy the urgent need for a secondary school that would provide good tuition at reasonable cost to the non-affluent sector of Accra and its environs. Dr Kofi George Konuah, Messrs Gottfried Narku Alema, James Acquaye Halm-Addo and Samuel Neils Awuletey started with nineteen students distributed into forms one to three at Ankrah Lane, James Town British Accra in a storey building belonging Mrs. Ellen Buckle. The school gained the status of a Government Assisted School in January, 1950 and relocated from Ellen House to the present site at Bubuashie, Accra in September, 1961.
