History of the School
The first nationalist government led by Dr Kwame Nkrumah assumed office in 1951 with the promulgation of a new constitution. The government introduced the Acceleration Development Plan for Education. The main objective of this plan was to help develop a balanced system working towards universal primary education as rapidly as consideration of finances and teacher-training allowed and maintain at the same time proportionate facilities for further education for those most fitted to receive it.
The implementation of the plan produced quantitative progress in the development of secondary schools in the country. In 1958, the Nkrumah Administration set up the Ghana Education Trust (GET) with the objective of providing more secondary schools to absorb the large number of pupils who had benefited from the Free Universal Primary Education launched in 1951 and who were unable to secure places in the existing 38 assisted schools in the country. The Cocoa Marketing Board provided funds for the Trust to meet the cost of establishing the first ten secondary schools of which Tweneboa Kodua Secondary School was lucky to be one.
FOUNDATION STONE
The Kumawu Traditional Council and the people of Kumawu readily welcomed the Trust’s proposal to establish a secondary school in the town. Under the able leadership of Barima Otuo Acheampong, the then Kumawu Omanhene, the Coouncil magnanimously donated a vast stretch of land for the school project.
On 20thAugust 1959, the foundation stone was laid by Hon. Krobo Edusei, Minister of Transport and Communication and Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumawu. By the end of the year, most of the buildings had been completed and were ready for use. The name Tweneboa Kodua was chosen by consensus for the school to immortalize the name of Barima Tweneboa Kodua (Kumawu Omanhene), who had given up his life at Feyiase to enable the Asante nation win its war of liberation over Denkyira during the reign of Otumfuo Osei Tutu I.
PIONEERS
The first batch of 45 all-male students was admitted in January 1960. The school remained a boys boarding school until the 1969/70 Academic Year when it was turned co-educational with the admission of the first group of female students. Ten years later, that is, in September 1979, Sixth Form Courses in Arts, Business and Science were introduced.
In 2004 the school was upgraded to a Model School status with the provision of additional facilities.
HEADMASTERS
From 1960, 17 Headmasters have headed the school. The first Headmaster was Mr Kwaku Adwedaah, who was prior to his appointment the Senior Housemaster of Prempeh College. He was tasked to develop the school along the lines of Prempeh College. Since then other Headmasters, including Mr Allan C. Cole; who happens to head the school twice (1966 – 1968 & 1990 – 1993). The incumbent, Mr A.W. Nantwi is the first Akyerema (old student) to head the school. Below is the list of past Headmasters and the year they headed the school:
| No | N A M E | YEAR | |
| FROM | TO | ||
| 1 |
MR KWAKU ADWEDAA 1st Headmaster) |
1959 | 1961 |
| 2 | MR S. K. BAMFO | 1961 | 1963 |
| 3 | MR D.E K. AGYEPON-YAMOAH | 1963 | 1966 |
| 4 | MR ALLAN C. COLE | 1966 | 1968 |
| 5 | MR W.P.K. AKOTO | 1968 | 1971 |
| 6 | MR HAYFORD G. K. BANG | 1971 | 1974 |
| 7 | MR K. A. ARYEETEY | 1974 | 1976 |
| 8 | MR E. O. MANTEAW | 1976 | 1981 |
| 9 | MR S. K. ADUSAH-POKU | 1981 | 1982 |
| 10 | MR S.A. DANQUAH | 1982 | 1987 |
| 11 | MR C.N. ADDO | 1987 | 1990 |
| 12 | MR ALLAN C. COLE | 1990 | 1993 |
| 13 | MR S.S. ADUSU | 1993 | 1994 |
| 14 | MR G.E.F. LAING | 1994 | 1996 |
| 15 | MR K. OPUNI-BOACHIE | 1996 | 2002 |
| 16 | MR J.W.K. AHOVEY | 2002 | 2008 |
| 17 | MR A.W. NANTWI | 2008 | – |