Bassa High School Main Building: Recently renovated and furnished by BHS, USA.

BHS History - THE FORWARD

By: The late Professor Rev. Edward J. Harris, Sr, Alumnus, Class of 1950 and former Principal

Anyone who looks at the Bassa High School in its present physical and academic appearances might readily agree that since 1905 when the institution was know as Hatzel Academy, an institution constructed and operated by the Methodist Episcopal Church Overseas in joint cooperation with their Liberian counterpart, through the years up to 1926, when a joint agreement was entered into and signed between the foreign board of said denomination and the Liberian government for its operation, the institution has made considerable progress. 

From March 9, 1926, up to the end of the 1943 school year, the institution was still known and called Hartzel Academy.  In February, 1944, the Department of Public Instruction, R.L. now the Ministry of Education, R.L., approved of the request which was made the previous (1943), by the Faculty of the academy for a change in the nomenclature (name) of the institution from Hartzel Academy to the Bassa High School.   That year (1944), the Bassa High School graduated its first exponent in the person of Mr. Henry Kparkay Weah.   

Since 1944, the Bassa High School has been on an upward thrust, forging ahead despite the mounting difficulties of the day and age shedding its rays of literacy in every direction of human interest and concern. The Principal, faculty and Student Body are optimistic that the Bassa High School will remain a “Tower of Light” (Turris Lucis) thought the ages to come as the struggle continues for the promotion of quality education in the New Liberia. 

 In 1981, a new development took place when the Ministry of Education, RL merged the Adult Night School formally known as the Government Night School into the Bassa High School and under its Administration as “The P.M. Session of the Bassa High School System.”  The Extension Division.

Tower of Light

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