The Presbyterian Senior High School (PRESEC) in Tamale had benefited from a six-unit classroom block at the cost of GH�108,265 at its new site at Bumvum, a suburb of Tamale.
The facility was built with financial support from the Oikonomous Foundation of Netherlands.
Right Reverend Dr Yaw Frimpong Manso, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, who commissioned the school, appealed to the government to hand over the mission schools to the church to instill moral and discipline
into the youth through education.
He said because the church was no longer in control of the mission schools, moral decadence had assumed alarming propulsion and that "any form of education that emphasizes academic excellence to the neglect of the moral and spiritual aspects would not fulfill the aspiration of society."
Rt. Rev. Dr. Manso said academic excellence must be combined with moral excellence to produce quality education.
The Moderator said most educational ordinances were passed in the past which provided for two categories of schools; government schools and assisted schools, with the government schools financed and managed by the government while religious bodies ran the assisted schools.
He said per the ordinance, assisted schools received financial assistance from the government after satisfying laid down conditions.
Rt. Rev. Dr Frimpong Manso said before mission schools ceded autonomy to government, the religious bodies had a freehand to determine the
curriculum which had a mixture of academic disciplines and religious knowledge.
He stressed that one could talk of the 'Presbyterian Discipline' with emphasis on not only the development of the head but of the heart.
"To the missions, education is not complete without moral and spiritual development of the individual," he said.
Mr San Nasamu Asabigi, Deputy Northern Regional Minister, in a speech read for him, commended the Presbyterian Church for its invaluable contribution to the state as a partner in development and appealed to other development partners to assist government achieve its desired goals.
He said the six-unit classroom block came at a time when some schools were facing infrastructure challenges.
Mr Anthony Bakutomah, Headmaster of Tamale PRESEC, said the school, established in 2002 with only 85 students, currently has 520 students.
He said the school scored 100 percent in the West Africa Examinations between 2005 and 2008 but dropped to 99 percent in 2009.
Mr Bakutomah appealed for support from donor partners, the government and non governmental organizations to address challenges such as
non-existence of hostel facilities for the students, absence of teacher's accommodation and unavailability of vehicle for the school.