Adisadel College is an Anglican senior high school founded on the 4th of January 1910 by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (S.P.G) and named the school as S.P.G. Grammar School. In 1924 the name was changed to St. Nicholas Grammar School and later moved to the present site where it once again changed its name this time to ADISADEL
COLLEGE.
Campuses
Adisadel College campus covers an area of approximately 1.5 sq km on a hill Adisadel, a suburb of Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana. It is a College with two campuses joined by 83 steps from the valley known as KATANGA to the hill top campus known as LEOPOLDVILLE. The Katanga campus has six beautiful boarding houses and a sports stadium situated on it and Leopoldville has four boarding houses in addition to the classroom blocks, the College Chapel, Administration block, Science and Computer Laboratories, the Library, Dining Hall, Gymnasium, the Sick Bay and the Acropolis (The Headmaster’s Residence). The pioneering students of the College put up most of the buildings on the hill.
Meaning of Motto
The competitive nature of Adisadel students can be found in the school motto "Vel Primus, Vel Cum Primis", a Latin phrase which translates "Either the first or with the first.
Mission
Producing high profile men who would be outstanding as they take up their rightful positions in the field of work to add to the gains of their predecessors, through the provision of a conducive environment and with the active involvement of all stakeholders to motivate both staff and students to achieve their best.
Vision
To be the first-class educational institution excelling in all fields of endeavours.
Adisadel College Anthem
Up Santaclausians! stand up to honour
Those who have gilded the School with their fame;
Our Alma Mater - a blessing upon her!
Bids us remember the strength of her name.
Others have laboured and we share the glory
Ours to do exploits and add to their gain;
Those who come after will take up our story,
May it be worthy of singing again.
Play up, play up Santaclausians,
Play up and play the game!
Give nothing but your best
And never think of rest:
Play up for the School's great name!
Hamlyn and School House see him who founded
Firm his beginnings, enduring his pile;
His was the triumph of hardship surmounted,
Yours is the chance just to make it worth while.
Give of your best to the School his creation -
Work with your head and your hands and your heart;
Play up for House and for School and for Nation,
Cry "Una Mente"; let each do his part.
Phillipthe patient, the Patron of Quaque,
Labour'd in love for Oguaa by the sea;
Let his example of faithfulness make you
Mighty in purpose and dogged as he.
This was a man and a priest and a hero -
He won the fight that go on not to the strong -
Let his endurance and fortitude nerve you
To war or to suffer for right against wrong.
Elliott the Old Boy, the first-fruits of Orders
Culled from the seed which our Founders have sown,
Food both for joy and inspiring affords us
Him as our pride and example we own;
Living for Christ's sake a slave to his charges
Working and watching while yet it is day;
The Kingdom of goodness its borders enlarges
Love and humility open the way.
Nicholas the saintly Bishop, our Patron,
Prays that his sons may be good men and true;
Hamlyn our Founder rests all his hopes on
You and the big things that you want to do.
Gird up your loins, let the watchword be "Forward",
Give of your best and the School you will see,
If you will pray hard, and work hard, and play hard,
Either primus or cum primis will be.
