In 1956, the government of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah established the Ghana educational trust (GET) under the chairmanship of nana Ayirebi Acquah for the purpose of founding a large number of secondary schools particularly in rural areas of the country which has been contributing so much to the economy of the country yet had been left to lag behind in education and other social field.
Out of this area Swedru secondary school was born-the first school ever to be established by the trust, in 1959.