Tamale Secondary School was the first co-educational senior high school in the Northern Region of Ghana. The School was established at a time when the agitation for Ghana’s independence had gathered momentum and the demand for a secondary school in the north had also intensified and had become non-negotiable.
The main objective of the establishment of the institution amongst others was to mitigate the widening gap of the human resource capacity between the North and the South of the then British Colony.
Tamale Secondary School, therefore, was officially opened in January, 1951 as the first secondary school in the Northern Territories under the name Government Secondary School.
The School started with twenty (20) boys with Rahim Gbadamosi as it first Senior Prefect. Mr. R.N. Bryant, the then Northern Territories Education Officer acted as the headmaster.