The school's crest has a shield with the Presbyterian symbol (the St Andrew Cross-Scottish flag with the Swiss flag embedded and a burning torch in the middle) with the motto of the school, "In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen", meaning "In Thy Light We Shall See Light", scrolled beneath the shield.

[4] The school anthem is "Happy Are We", written by J. L. Anang and transcribed by Stephen Appiah Danquah.

[6] The school is an eight-time Ghana National Science and Maths Quiz winner.

New students were traditionally initiated at the feet of this tree clad in bedsheets and powdered faces.

[12] At the new campus, it continued as a boys' boarding secondary school until the mid-1970s when the sixth form was upgraded to the National Science College.

Female students were admitted into the sixth form in small numbers from September 1975.

It is claimed that this is the first Senior High School in Ghana to have its own radio station.