Achievements
The school has won the Science quiz twice and have been runners-up four times. It has also been runners-up in the 1995 Brilliant Science and Mathematics Quiz Competition, and champions in 1997. It placed second nationally the first and about the only time SSSCE results league were published.
The school has 9 out the 13 Superzonals. The school has produced several national athletes and Olympians including Ohene Karikari, Sandy Osei Agyemang, and Christian Nsiah.
Until the 1980s, OWASS was the only authorized test center for the administration of TOEFL and SAT exams in Ghana.It attained about 10 8As in the 2012 WASSCE making it the second best school in Ghana behind Presbytearian boys (PRESEC) in Accra, who indeed have perfomed extraordinarily well in the science and math quizzes, having won it 5 times.
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