The Gambia Senior Secondary School (formerly the Gambia High School) is a school in Box Bar Road, Banjul, Gambia, founded by Wesleyan missionaries. It has educated two leaders of Gambia.
History The school was founded in 1876 in Dobson Street, Banjul, by Wesleyan missionaries. In 1898 it re-opened as the Methodist Boys' High School and in 1915 the associated Girls High School was opened.Gambia Senior Secondary School, Banjul. accessgambia.com Retrieved 18 September 2017.
The girls' and boys' high schools were merged in 1959 to create the Gambia High School and the location moved to Box Bar Road. Philip Beale was the principal from 1961 to 1966. Gambia Senior Secondary School, 2007. Archived at archive.is Retrieved 18 September 2017. While there, he jointly organised an archaeological expedition with pupils from the school to examine the Senegambian stone circles.Beale, Philip, "Stone circles in The Gambia, West Africa" , Magdalene Matters, No. 38 (November 2013), pp. 10–11. In 1994, the name changed again to the Gambia Senior Secondary School.
Notable alumni Fatim Badjie, Minister of Communications, Information and Information Technology and Minister of Health and Social Welfare, youngest person ever appointed to the Gambian Cabinet. Fatou Lamin Faye, Minister of Education from 2004 Yahya Jammeh, leader of the Gambia from 1994 to 2017. Dawda Jawara, prime minister of Gambia from 1962 to 1970. Bai Modi Joof, lawyer Fatou Sanyang Kinteh, Minister for Women's Affairs, Children and Social Welfare Louis Mahoney, actor
Principals 1876 to 1958
1876–1878: Rev. J. Fieldhouse 1878–1879: Rev. J. Heslam 1879–1884: C. R. Cross 1885–1889: J. Gilbert 1889–2900: G. P. Wilhelm 1901–1904: Circuits Ministers 1904–1907: W. T. Cole 1907–1909: Rev. C. Leopold 1909–1911: A. N. Walker 1912–1913: F. Dean 1913–1920: Rev. L. L. Leopold 1921–1922: W. E. Hoare 1922–1928: Rev. F. F. Morton 1929–1931: H. E .E. Burne 1932–1952: J. J. Baker 1953–1958: R. P. Pye
Girls High School
1915–1917: Mrs. P. S. Toye 1922–1927: Miss L. E. Morton 1928–1929: Miss C. E. Mason 1929–1936: Miss. R. M. Little 1937–1938: Miss. A. I. Spencer 1939–1956: Miss. N. Spencer 1957–1958: Miss. V. Vodlcy
Gambia High School
1959–1961; J. S. Sergeants 1961–1966: P. E. Beale 1966–1974: E. F. Foss 1974–1976: J. J. Ndow 1976–1978: H. I. Jagne 1978–1980: R. D. Somers 1980–1986: H. I. Jagne 1986–1989: Mrs. D. E. S. Carrol 1989–1994: Mrs. Satang Jow 1994–2005: Rev. W. E. E. Carr 2005–present: Lamin M. B. Jaiteh
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