Hope College becomes the best-performing SHS for the 2024/25 WASSCE

Hope College has officially etched its name into Ghana’s academic hall of fame—emerging as the best-performing senior high school in the 2024/25 WASSCE.

According to WAEC’s released results, Hope College achieved a 100% pass rate in nine core and elective subjects, including business management, elective math, physics, and French.

Even more jaw-dropping? Four students—David Ankrah, Maxwell Ayeyi Boamah, Daniel Yayra Sengretsi, and Daniel Ebo Dadzie—each bagged a perfect 8A1s.

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But the real mic drop came when David Nii Commey Ankrah, a past student of Hope College, Gomoa Fetteh, emerged as the Overall Best Candidate in the 2024 WASSCE, beating out over 2.4 million candidates across all five WASSCE countries—Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia.

He received his trophy in Monrovia, Liberia, on March 18, 2025—handed over by the President of the Republic of Liberia, His Excellency Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr.

David Nii Commey Ankrah didn’t just collect his trophy and smile for the cameras—he dropped a challenge.

In his valedictory speech, David urged students across West Africa to take their education seriously and sit for the 2025 WASSCE, calling it a gateway to opportunity and transformation. He emphasized that academic excellence isn’t reserved for the privileged or the prodigies—it’s about consistency, discipline, and belief in one’s potential.

David admonished candidates preparing for the 2025 WASSCE to strive for excellence and resist the urge to engage in acts of malpractice.

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This marks only the second time a Hope College alumnus has claimed a WAEC International Excellence Award; the previous standout was Godfred Aseda Obeng, who bagged second overall in 2020.

These are the top award winners and their prizes in the 2024 WASSCE International Excellence Awards:

Overall best candidate: David Nii Commey Ankrah, a past student of Hope College.

He won 1,000 US dollars from the WAEC endowment fund, a brand-new laptop from Zenith Bank, 30,000 Ghana cedis, and a desktop computer for the school from Japan Motors. Ankrah is currently studying for a Doctor of Pharmacy at the University of Cape Coast.

2nd Best Candidate: Henschel Tabi Frempong-Manso, a past student of Kade Senior High Technical School
Prizes won: 900 US dollars from the WAEC endowment fund, 20,000 Ghana cedis from ADB, and a desktop computer for the school from Japan Motors. He is currently an engineering student at KNUST.

3rd best candidate: Benedict Ofori Debrah, a past student of Presbyterian Boys’ Senior High School.

He won 750 US dollars from the WAEC endowment fund, 15,000 cedis from ADB, and a laptop and a desktop computer for school from Japan Motors.

Debrah is currently pursuing a BSc in Human Biology at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

All three winners are Ghanaian students and have achieved straight A1 grades in all eight subjects, securing all top three positions in the WAEC International Excellence Awards for Ghana.
Cheers to Hope College—may this win ignite a real revolution in Ghanaian secondary education.