The Senior Secondary School for Science Etiti, located at the former Etiti Campus of Imo State University was founded in 1988. This was in the late Navy Commodore Amadi Ikwechegh’s regime as a Military Governor/Administrator of old Imo State (1986 – 1989) under the Military Regime of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida as Head of State.

The Vision for the school was credited to Dr.Cecilia Okereke who played a very important role by taking her dreams of such novel acclaim to the Director of Science Resource Center in Imo State, one Dr Ibegbulam.

The objective vision for the school was to promote a pure and undiluted Science Education for Science-oriented students from different schools in the South Eastern States. Entry point was after obtaining their Junior West African Examination Council Certificate.

The best students from different Schools in the South Eastern States would sit for an Entrance Examination after which admission was based purely on Merit. A prerequisite JSSCE certification to qualify for entry into the Entrance Examination for the school which was conducted in the different zones/States’ centers was pegged and maintained at five (5) credited subjects including English Language, Mathematics and Integrated Science. This was how Imo State Senior Secondary School for Science, Etiti was born.

The School started with a staff Strength of 20 and 240 students, ie with a teachers/students ratio of 1:12!

Mr. Bob Teteh became the Pioneer Principal of the School with Mr. Nwadike who was also a Physics teacher as the Vice Principal. The 1988-1990 Set was the Pioneer set.

All the teachers and students lived within the School Premises with a fully serviced quarters for the teachers and six hostels for the Students. One 2-storeys building was used as Hostels A,B and C housing the female students while Hostels D,E,F,G and H housed the male students.

Competition in the school was fierce as was expected from a School with the best brains not only in academics but also in Sports. The healthy rivalry with a regimented acculturation in a serene pure academic environment inculcated early life discipline and hard work in the students.

The afternoon/night Preps raised the students reading culture and imbibed in the students the spirit of independence. The excellence in teaching and learning in the School paid off optimally in the Students’ external examinations output. An average performance of the students hit almost 90℅.

The school also had the enigmatic Mr. Duragwu as the Bursar who reigned supreme in the School with a style of Mathematics teaching second to none.

The school was renamed MADONNA SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE in later years with the high standards substantially maintained.

Today’s professionals in fields of Medicine, Engineering, Science Teaching and sundry areas are products of the school which had set the pace in secondary school scholarship with bias for the core Sciences.

To God be all the glory.