The management of Kpando Senior High School in the Kpando Municipality of the Volta Region has lamented the inability of the school to accommodate the increasing number of students.

The headmaster, Charles Evans Apreku asserted that the school lacks enough classrooms, accommodation for teachers, dormitory for students and ICT logistics.

Speaking at the local launch of the 70th anniversary in Kpando, he called for a stakeholder collaboration toward resolving the infrastructure challenges.

The Kpando Senior High School which was established in 1953 now has a student population of 3,498.

Due to the rapid increment in student pollution within the last few years, there is an urgent need to make available more infrastructure to accommodate the students.

Mr. Apreku asserted that an 18-unit classroom block must be provided to ensure every class has a conducive environment to study.

He said that management was compelled to introduce the shift system to make use of the inadequate classrooms, while some classes are conducted in the dinning hall.

“As we speak now, we are running shifts and I hope that if we get an 18-unit classroom block it will help us ease the tension, so far as classroom infrastructure is concerned”, he said.

He further indicated that the boy's dormitory is currently accommodating over its designated capacity due to the large number of students, hence the need for another block to ease the pressure on the current facilities.

Still, on infrastructure, Mr. Apreku said that less than half of the 235 teaching and non-teaching staff are housed on campus due to the unavailability of enough staff bungalows.

He expressed optimism that housing more of the staff on campus would propel academic activities and discipline, which would contribute to achieving excellent academic performance.

Another worrying development, he said, is the lack of enough computers in the school, though it offers elective information communication technology course.

Mr. Apreku said the ICT lab needs to be stocked with about 30 desktop computers to complement the existing ones to enhance the study of the discipline.

"Those who are doing ICT as a core is very high, if we don't get computers, it means that we have to travel to another school before we can write WASSCE", he explained.

He stressed that irrespective of the infrastructure challenges, the school continues to do well in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination.

The Guest Speaker, Nyatefe Korsi Ayibor, entreated teachers, parents, and the community to play their respective roles to ensure the effective education of the students.

He underscored the numerous opportunities provided by information communication technology and entreated the students to leverage on it to better their lives, and warned against its wrongful use.