St. Augustine's College (Cape Coast)

On 6 August 1933, the Catholic Church and the Bishop of Cape Coast Vicariate Monsignor W. T. Porter[3][4] felt the need to have a separate Catholic school and Cape Coast was found to be the most suitable location.[5] A commemorative foundation stone was laid in late 1935 at the present site. Fr. Maurice B. Kelly, the Dean of the Training College at Amissano which is now St. Teresa’s Seminary, Amisano,[6] became the first Head Dean or Headmaster.[7]

St. Augustine’s College, popularly known as "AUGUSCO",[8] calls its old students "APSUNIANS"[9][10]

Due to the historical association and their common catholic antecedents, there is a tendency for Holy Child High School, Ghana old students (HOPSA) and St. Augustine’s old students (APSUNIANS) to get married. The church believes marriage between old students of the two schools will perpetuate the Catholic traditions.[11][12][13][14]

The students are among the highest performing in the WAEC exams[15]

St. Augustine's College are two time winners of the National Science and Mathematics Quiz. Winners in 2007 and 2019. In the 2007 edition of the National Science and Mathematics Quiz the college won, and two out of the school's three contestants represented Ghana.[16] Team three won the West African Science and Mathematics Quizzes.[17]

Nduom House (the latest) was financed and constructed by an alumnus Paa Kwesi Nduom.[18][19]

The college won the finals of the 2019 edition of the Ghana National Science and Maths Quiz. This was the second time the college had emerged winners of the competition, after having won it for the first time in 2007. The College also won the 2016 edition of the Sprite Ball Championship .[20]

• P. A. K. Aboagye, Ghanaian poet, essayist, novelist, and historian.
• Paul Acquah, former governor of the Bank of Ghana.
• A. K. Adu, a former diplomat
• William Kwabena Aduhene, Ghanaian politician, member of parliament in the first republic
• Junior Agogo, former international soccer star
• Samuel Kobina Annim, Government Statistician and former Associate Professor of Economics.
• Nathaniel Attoh, a radio journalist, master of ceremonies and ring announcer.
• Kwesi Ahwoi, a Ghanaian politician.
• Kabral Blay Amihere, a Ghanaian journalist.
• Kenneth Andam, retired Ghanaian sprinter.
• Nana Asaase a literary coach and writer.
• Sammi Awuku,a Ghanaian politician and currently the National Organizer of the New Patriotic Party.
• Kofi Baako, a politician and minister in the Nkrumah government
• Joseph Kingsley Baffour-Senkyire, Ghanaian academic, politician and diplomat; member of parliament in the first republic and formerly Ghana's ambassador to the United States of America
• Dr. John Bilson, medical doctor and politician
• Ben Brako, leading Ghanaian Highlife Star;
• Amu Djoleto, a Ghanaian novelist.
• John Bogolo Erzuah, a former diplomat and a politician; minister in the Nkrumah government
• Michael Essien, international football star;[21]
• George Hagan (politician), a Ghanaian politician.
• Kwame Sanaa-Poku Jantuah, a politician in the first and third republic.
• Bashiru Kwaw-Swanzy, a former attorney general of the first republic.
• Nana Amaniampong Marfo, member of parliament in the fourth republic.
• Fred McBagonluri, engineer, inventor, novelist and academic.
• Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, former minister of Ghana, former member of parliament and entrepreneur;[22]
• Tawia Modibo Ocran, a Ghanaian jurist; former supreme court judge of Ghana.
• Jonathan Tetteh Ofei, a politician and former member of parliament during the second republic
• Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, diplomat, former minister of state, entrepreneur and member of parliament;[14]
• Patrick Kwame Kusi Quaidoo, a politician and minister in the Nkrumah government
• Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo, a retired Ghanaian military officer who served as the Chief of the Defence Staff (Ghana) of the Ghana Armed Forces.[23]
• Francis Selormey, a Ghanaian novelist.
• Justice Emile Short, a Ghanaian judge and academic and the first Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice in Ghana.
• Professor Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana;[24]
• Ebo Taylor, a Ghanaian guitarist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and producer.[25]
• Herbert Winful, engineering professor

• School website