More than 100 students who applied to pursue various programmes at the St. Charles Mini Seminary Senior High School at Tamale in the Northern region for the 2017/2018 academic year failed to gain admission to the school.

They were denied admission by authorities due to accommodation challenges.

On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, fire has gutted the main dormitory of St. Charles Senior High School.

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The cause of the inferno which destroyed properties worth thousands of cedis was unknown.

Due to fire, the school authorities are facing accommodation problems.

According to the headmaster of the school, Mr. Polycarb Kuusonkub he requested for only 150 students taking into consideration the lack of accommodation for the boarding students but 232 students were placed.  The school does not admit day students.

He said the school had finished giving admission to the number it requested adding that the rest could not be admitted because they is no space to house them.  He has since been directing them to check at schools they chose as second and third choices.

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"Now that they have not worked on the block, I managed to use the old dining hall and put in the beds and counted the number of them and there were 150 so I requested for 150 but they gave 200 plus, so even I picked 51 where am I going to place the child? That is the situation," he added.

St. Charles which was established as a minor seminary and the only Boys second cycle institution in Northern Region has so far produced academic giants.