Academic Facilities

The academic facilities provided at Ilesa Grammar School had never been adequate and would never be.   But if the present tempo of generous donations by the old Students’ Association, both as individuals and as group continues, the facilities may be near adequate.   From the multi purpose hall of 1934, the school now boasts of several functional buildings, many of which were donated.   There are Staff Quarters, the students’ hostels (now converted to other uses), the science laboratories, and lots of classrooms.   Among the donated structures and facilities are the:

• School Gate donated by Club ’55
• Main access road to the school paved with asphalt (financed by late Ambassador Adedokun Haastrup)
• Modern Administrative Block containing the offices of the Principal, the Vice-Principals, the Bursar, the other Administrative staff donated by the Old Students’ Association
• Technical Workshop donated by Club ’48
• Block of six classrooms donated by Chief Sonny Odogwu
• Modern standard library named after Rev. N.O.A. Lahanmi donated by the Old Students’ Association (with substantial financial support from late Chief E.O. Ashamu)
• Six personal computers donated by the 1968-1972 Club.

Current Needs

The following list was submitted by the current Principal, Mr. B.O. Abiola, in March 2006 during a courtesy visit to the school:

• Completion of the school fence
• Renovation of the school hall
• Renovation of staff quarters
• Renovation of squash hall
• A ste-down transformer
• 2.5 - 2.9 kVA Generators
• A school bus
• Sports equipments
• A borehole
• Water storage tanks
• Furnishing of the principal's office
• Lawn mowers (4)
• Student hostels
• Science Laboratory - taps, water pipes, chemicals, etc.
• Painting of the buildings including administrative block
• Ionian games sponshorship
• Air conditioners
• Musical instruments
• Photocopy machine