| CITA International School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Port Harcourt Campus Rumuogba Port Harcourt, Rivers State, 500102 Nigeria Etche Campus Umuchoko, Chokota Etche, Rivers State, 512101 Nigeria | |
| Coordinates | 4°50′22.65″N7°2′10.68″E / 4.8396250°N 7.0363000°E Coordinates: 4°50′22.65″N7°2′10.68″E / 4.8396250°N 7.0363000°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Private |
| Motto | Building on a Sure Foundation |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Christian |
| Established | Nur/Primary: 1981 Secondary: 2001 |
| Gender | Boys and girls |
| Age | 6 monthsto 16 |
| Website | CITA International School |
CITA International School, also known simply as CITA, is a private, Christian school in Rivers State, Nigeria. CITA offers nursery, primary and secondary school education to children ages 6 months through to 16 years. The school was founded on 15 May 1981 with a capacity for 90 pupils. It initially functioned as a nursery and primary school until 2001, when the high school section was established. [1]
Private schools, also known to many as independent schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments. Children who attend private schools may be there because they are dissatisfied with public schools in their area. They may be selected for their academic prowess, or prowess in other fields, or sometimes their religious background. Private schools retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students for tuition, rather than relying on mandatory taxation through public (government) funding; at some private schools students may be able to get a scholarship, lowering this tuition fee, dependent on a student's talents or abilities, need for financial aid, or tax credit scholarships that might be available. Some private schools are associated with a particular religion, such as Judaism, Roman Catholicism, or Lutheranism. For the past century, roughly one in 10 U.S families has chosen to enroll their children in private school.
Rivers State, also known simply as Rivers, is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. According to census data released in 2006, the state has a population of 5,198,716, making it the sixth-most populous state in the country. Its capital and largest city, Port Harcourt, is economically significant as the centre of Nigeria's oil industry. Rivers State is bounded on the South by the Atlantic Ocean, to the North by Imo, Abia and Anambra States, to the East by Akwa Ibom State, and to the West by Bayelsa and Delta states. It is home to many indigenous ethnic groups: Ogoni, Abua, Ekpeye, Ikwerre, Ibani, Opobo, Eleme, Okrika, and Kalabari, Etche, Ogba, Engenni, Egbema, Obolo and others. The people from Rivers State are known as "Riverians".
A primary school is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about five to eleven, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.
Currently, the nursery and primary school is sited on a well planned government residential area of Rumuogba in Port Harcourt, [2] while the secondary school is at Rumuochokota in Etche local government area. [3]
Port Harcourt is the capital and largest city of Rivers State, Nigeria. It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the Niger Delta. As of 2016, the Port Harcourt urban area has an estimated population of 1,865,000 inhabitants, up from 1,382,592 as of 2006.
Etche (Echie) is a subgroup of the Igbo people occupying parts of Rivers State, Abia State and Imo State in Southern Nigeria. The Etche people inhabit two Local Government Areas (LGA) of Rivers State, namely Etche Local Government Area and Omuma LGA. Etche/Omuma is a Nigerian National Assembly constituency.
