Ghana
Western Region
Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly

Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School

The Archbishop Porter Girls' Senior High School is a Catholic senior secondary school for girls, located in Takoradi in the of . The female second cycle institution operates within the Ghana Public Education System.
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  • Email: archbishopportergirlshs@ges.gov.gh
  • Type: School
  • Denomination: Roman Catholic
  • Description: female second cycle institution in Sekondi, Western Region, Ghana
  • Also known as: “APGSHS”, “Archbishop Porter Girls Senior High School”, “Archbishop Porter Girls‘ Senior High School”, “Ladies Of Substance”, and “Porter GISS”
  • Address: Fijai, Sekondi-Takoradi, Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fijai Senior High School and Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital.

School
, formerly Fijai Secondary School, is a co-educational senior high school located in the Western Region of . The name Fijai is from the native dialect "Afei Gyae Me", which literally means "Now, leave me alone". is situated 1¼ km south of Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School.

Hospital
is one of the ten regional hospitals of Ghana located in the . It is a secondary health facility which also receives referrals from the Western corridor of Ghana. is situated 2 km south of Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School.

Government office
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is one of the fourteen districts in Western Region, . Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Shama Ahanta East Metropolitan District in 1988, which was created from the former Sekondi Takoradi… is situated 3½ km east of Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sekondi-Takoradi and New Takoradi.

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Sekondi and Takoradi are adjacent port cities; the combined municipality forms the capital of Western Ghana.

Suburb
is a town in the of . It is 3 kilometres from the centre Takoradi the Western regional capital. The serves both as a dormitory town as well as an industrialized zone. is situated 4 km south of Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School.

Suburb
is a town in . It is located five kilometers from Takoradi the regional capital of the of Ghana. It is a dormitory town and provides housing facilities for several families who work in and around Takoradi. is situated 4 km southwest of Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School.

Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School

Latitude
4.94225° or 4° 56′ 32″ north
Longitude
-1.74892° or 1° 44′ 56″ west
Inception
1965
Operator
Ghana Education Service
Open location code
6CPWW7R2+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 668860912
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­school
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­roman_catholic
Wiki­data ID
Q4785634
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In Other Languages

From Dagbani to Hausa—“Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School” goes by many names.
  • Dagbani: “APGSHS”
  • Dagbani: “Archbishop Porter Girls Senior High School”
  • Dagbani: “Ladies of Substance”
  • Dagbani: “Porter GISS”
  • French: “Archbishop Porter Girls High School”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “APGSHS”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Archbishop Porter Girls High School”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ladies Of Substance”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Porter GISS”
  • Hausa: “Babban Makarantar ’yan mata ta Archbishop Porter”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School”. Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0.