Residents of Abobo Zonkor, a farming community near Suhum, have appealed to the District Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to re-open the local junior high school which was closed down a year ago.
Mr Emmanuel Budum, chairman of the Parent/Teacher Association (PTA), said closure of the school had brought hardship to parents.
He told the Ghana News Agency that following the closure of the only school in the community, JHS pupils had to walk a distance of three kilometers to Suhum to attend school.
Mr Budum said due to the long distance, many school children had stopped attending school, while some of them attend school twice in a week because their parents could not afford to pay their transportation to Suhum.
Last year the district directorate of the GES closed down the school due to poor enrolment.
Officials of the district directorate of the GES told the GNA that total enrolment was only six pupils before its closure.