Tema International School (TIS) is a private co-educational boarding school situated some 2 kilometres north of the port city of Tema, which lies on the Greenwich meridian. It offers courses leading to the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) and the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB).TIS is seeking to become a Candidate MYP school from August 2016 to ensure the IB continuum at TIS.

Mrs. Comfort Adjavon, the progenitor of TIS, nursed the dream to establish a public educational institution. That was about twenty years ago when she retired from the Ghana Education Service, at the age of 45, as a Principal Superintendent.  Her resignation from the service was actually inspired by her love for, and intention to venture into farming full-time, particularly, poultry and livestock.  After 13 years, and in spite of the success of the farm, she still missed teaching. Additionally, the circumstances of her disabled granddaughter, Sonia, who eager to attend school, yet found it difficult to be properly integrated into the normal school system, gave vent to Comfort’s initial dream of establishing a school which could fully cater for the educational needs of her granddaughter. So acting upon the encouragement and support of her husband, daughter and friends, she penned the plan for a national school for children, in order also for her granddaughter to receive proper care and tuition. Thus, modest but beautiful structures began to surface to begin this national school for children. At that time, Mr and Mrs Adjavon had sent one of their daughters to British School of Lome (BSL), an international school in Togo, and were inspired by the progress they saw in her, from exposure to the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) and the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programmes. The crux of the matter is that the couple’s involvement with BSL had a great impact on the TIS dream and an interplay of academic and economic interests gradually altered the initial dream with a much more focus on an international school. So, after further consultations and counsel from experts in the academia, such as Professor James Toole of Newcastle University, the couple was convinced that the IGCSE and IB Diploma Programmes would support their vision of producing world class citizens who could hold their own, wherever they found themselves, thus culminating in the birth of Tema International School (TIS) on the 3rd of October, 2003.  It was at this time that Mr Ajavon gave an astronomic boost to infrastructure, pushing the school’s boundaries and erecting gigantic structures with the fragrance of an international school.