About CAPOSTO

CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH GRAMMAR SCHOOL ALUMNI
Efon-Alaaye, Ekiti

Motto: Vouloir Cest Pouvoir – To wish is to be able

A committed, patriotic, Illustrious Efon Alaaye son and initiator of brilliant ideas, the late Professor Caleb Isaac Olawole Olaniyan sensitized the don-Alaaye community towards establishing a secondary Grammar School. At the reception for him on is return from the United Kingdom after completing his PhD in Zoology in 1957, he remarked thus “Iju/Ita Ogbolu already has a secondary school, what is Efon Alaaye doing?” That was how the spirit of Efon people was agitated and all resources were mobilized. Consequently, on 26th day of February, 1960, the first (Pioneer) community Grammar School was established and names Efon-Alaaye Grammar School. Later the proprietorship was transferred to the Efon Alaaye Christ Apostolic Church Mission (CAC Mission) that had wherewithal to manage it effectively, it then changed name to the Christ Apostolic Church Grammar School. Efon-Alaaye fondly reffered to as “CAPOSTO”.

The school started operating at a temporary site, the defunct Local Authority Primary Schoo, Eti Oni near the then Oni Water Works on the old Efon Alaaye Ilsah road, Efon Alaaye, under the management of late Dr. I. O. Balogun, then possessing only the Higher Elementary Certificate. He dutifully combines the functions of the class teacher, house master and principal. The first senior prefect of the school was late Olayinka Oni Joshua who gave a good account of himself though out his six-year tenure.

The first set of students who were males (and later others who joined the first in 1961 and after including Messrs Tunde Awodiya and Hon (Chief) Thaddeus Aina, former member, Federal House of Representative) spent six years to qualify for enrolment in the WASCE in late 1965. Out of the 31 boys constituting the first set in the year 1960, only 17 reached from VI WASCE in the year 1965. Understandably, only eight subjects (excluding core science subjects) were taught from Forms I-VI but by committed and dedicated teachers. Two passed in the first division out of the total of about fourteen that scaled through.

On May 19, 1960, Mr. E. N. Oguma (brandishing the BA, BCOMs, Higher Diploma in Education Certificates) assumed duty as the first Principal of the School. 1962, the school moved to its permanent site at Ita-Odo under the principalship of the late Chief M. A. Dada. In January 1966, the school became a co-educational institution by which time it had been well nurtured to maturity by the Christ Apostolic Mission, Efon Alaaye.

In the year 1976, the then Ondo State Government took over the management of all schools thus making Efon Alaaye C.A.C Grammar School a public institution that was catered from the state government coffers. The school was accredited to offer Arts, Science, Commercial and Vocational subjects at the West African Examinations Council and National Examinations Council levels.

Till date, the school has been administered by over twenty principals, who have made their invaluable constitution to the growth and development of the school. Through thick and thin the first set of Principals (three or so) managed to ensure the bare existence and survival of the school in spite of very scare resources.

The golden periods of the school were during the principalship of Late Chief T. A. Oke, Chief Olu Akinbobola, Mr. Dayo Ogboja and Mr. M. O. A. Adeniran, during which the school was turned into a beacon of light like other similar institutions in the old western region and Ondo State. In the fields of academics and sports, discipline was at its peak then, especially during the tenure of Mr. Dayo Ogboja. Then the school witnessed tremendous growth and development, namely the establishment and expansion of its infrastructure including student’s hostels, classroom blocks and modern library. The students’ population rose phenomenally to over 1,000.

In August 1984, February 1986 and May 1987, some untold disasters befell the school when rainstorms ravaged three academic blocks, science laboratories, staff quarters and school Assembly hall. The Parents’-Teachers’ Association (P.T.A) under the dynamic leadership of late Chief Ayo Omidiji took courage and the gauntlet on each occasion to rehabilitate the building.

In 2005, the school was split into two, that is, Junior and Senior sections, following the federal government’s change in education policy (the 6-3-3-4 system). The school was one of the first set of 290 schools nation-wide that were picked and linked with the internet under the federal government Information and Communication Technology (ICT) programme.