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Shama Senior High School

mixed second cycle institution in Shama, Western Region, Ghana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ19977524 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shama High School is a coeducational senior high school at Shama in the Shama District of the Western Region of Ghana.

History

The School was founded in 1990 as a result of the 1988 Educational Reforms in the Shama District Assembly, Shama.

Editorial summary

“Shama Senior High School” enters the record as mixed second cycle institution in Shama, Western Region, Ghana. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shama, Senior and High can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Shama, Senior and High.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Shama Senior High School” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Shama, Senior and High provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19977524. Authority coordinates are 5.022, -1.636. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990 and 1988.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
Verify next

Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shama Senior High School”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shama Senior High School primary sources, Shama Senior High School archive and Shama research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Shama Senior High School”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Shama Senior High School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.