The General Arts department is the most popular department in Apam High School, with the highest student enrollment of about 1500 students, which represents about one-third of the school population. The department has a teaching population of twenty-eight full-time employees and seven service personnel and student teachers. The elective subjects of the departments are Economics, Geography, Government, History, Christian Religious Studies, and Social Studies. The department requires its students to read frequently in order to increase their vocabulary and linguistic proficiency so they may speak clearly and confidently. There are several employment options for students taking the general arts instruction course. These include: copywriting; management; social work; law, media, and communication; public relations software consultant; administrative executive assistant; and others.  

PERFORMS IN WASSCE: The department is fortunate to have dedicated, selfless teachers, and more than 98 percent of the students who took the just completed 2022 WASSCE passed with quality grades.

 CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS: The department has student clubs and associations that are utilized to nurture students to the next level owing to the history of developing creative students. Through peer teaching and learning, the clubs educate students how to generate their own original ideas. Our students’ performances at events where the clubs compete demonstrate their creativity. The History Club Association, the Geography Student Association, NCCE, and the Drama and Cultural Troop are among the clubs that have received recognition from this department.

QUIZ COMPETITION PERFORMANCE: The department leads the area in quiz performance. The geography division took first place in the geography quiz that was held in 2021 by the Geography Department at the University of Education's Winneba campus. Students from the arts department have won regional championships three years in a row in the annual Independence Day anniversary quiz hosted by the Ghana Education Service. (2021–2023). In the year 2022, Great Apass was the only school in the Central Region to go to the national final, where we finished third in the GTV-sponsored What Do You Know competition this was made possible by the History Club. In the 2018 iteration, the culture and performance club ranked third nationally.

Mr. Jude Kofi Baffoe is currently the Head of Department for this Department. He hails from Agona Kwaman in the Agona West Municipality of the central region .A staunch catholic. He had his GCE ”0” level education from Apam Secondary School from 1989-1994 and continued at Nsein Secondary School in the Western Region where he obtained his GCE A level certificate in June 1996.He taught at Agona Bobikuma Catholic School and Agona Kwaman Catholic School as a Pupil Teacher from 1997-1999. He then proceeded to

University of Cape Coast for his Bechelor Degree in Social Science where he was awarded B.A( hons ) Social Science(Upper Division) in August 2002.

After University he did his 2nd National Service with Department of Social Welfare.In 2004 he was employed by the Ghana Education Service to teach Geography and Government at Nyakrom Secondary Technical School and in

2005 he was transferd to Apam SHS.Until his appoimtment as Head of Department for General Arts , he has held

the positions as Form Master, Assistant Housemaster, Housemaster. Currently he is patron of Catholic Students Union (CATHSU) Drama and Cultural Troop.Civil Education Club and Chosen Priesthood Choir (CPC)