Aregbesola Sets to Commission Ayedaade Govt High School, Ikire on Tuesday

The Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration will on Tuesday commission a 3000 capacity State-of-the-art Ayedaade Government High School, Ikire, in Irewole Local Government of the State of Osun.  

The school will be commissioned by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu by 1pm.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration had embarked on the construction of state-of-the-art 100 Elementary Schools, 50 Middle Schools and 11 High Schools. 

As at today,  28 Elementary Schools, 26 Middle Schools and 9 High Schools have been completed while the Government High Schools in Ikirun and Iwo would be completed by July ending. 

Each of the high school is a three-in-one school with the capacity to accommodate 3,000 students. Each school has four principals with three superintending over 1,000 pupils each, and an overall senior principal.

Base on the set standard, each school has 72 classrooms of 49-square-meters, each capable of sitting 49 students. It has six offices for study groups, and also equipped with six laboratories, 48 toilets for pupils and another eight for teachers, one science library, one arts library, facility manager’s office, a bookshop and a sickbay.

Other facilities include senior principal’s office, three principals’ offices, a bursar’s office, three general staff offices, a record store and security shed/reception, which have been fully furnished, as well as borehole and power transformer.

Each school complex also has 1,000 square-meters of floor space multi-purpose function hall capable of siting 1,000 students for external examinations. The hall has storage for equipment, utility storage, a stage, office space, documents storage, four female toilets and four male toilets.

For sporting activities, the school has an Olympic-sized football field, seven lane sprinting tracks for 100 meters and 400 meters events and an outdoor basketball court that doubles as tennis court. The complex has ample parking space for more than 75 vehicles.

Aside the construction of the new school, the noble Aregbesola’s administration has upgraded and renovated more than 2000 classrooms in old schools

The government urged all stakeholders in education, traditional rulers, religious and community leaders, leaders of various political parties to grace the Ayedaade High School commissioning occasion on Tuesday.

Adelani Baderinwa

Commissioner for Information and Strategy

State of Osun