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Coordinates | 6°45′34″S39°16′40″E / 6.75944°S 39.27778°E \ |
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Type | International school International Baccalaureate |
Motto | Challenge Support Inspire |
Established | 1963 |
Locale | Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania |
Director | Ms. Melaine Vrba |
Grades | Early Childhood - Grade 12 |
Number of students | about 1000 |
Color(s) | green, blue, yellow, black |
Mascot | Twiga |
Website | istafrica |
The International School of Tanganyika (IST), founded in 1963, is an international school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The school is an IB World School [1] that hosts the Primary Years, Middle Years, and Diploma programmes. IST operates on two campuses in desirable suburbs of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. IST Elementary serves children from age 3 to Grade 5 while IST Secondary, 5 kilometers away, serves Grades 6 – 12. IST is fully accredited by the Council of International Schools (CIS) and the Middle States Association (MSA).
IST is a diverse international school currently serving about 1000 students from across the globe: 22% of the students are Tanzanians, 15% American, 10% British, 8% Indian, and the remainder from approximately 60 other nationalities. The Elementary Campus offers programmes for students from age 3 to Grade 5 and the Secondary Campus offers programmes from Grade 6 to 12. IST families are a mix of long-term residents, Tanzanian citizens, expatriates in a growing private sector, and NGO and diplomatic workers from numerous donor countries. To be admitted to the pre-Kindergarten a child must be 3 years of age before September 1.
Scholars from IST have gone to universities such as Georgia Institute of Technology, Berkeley, McGill, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Brown, Duke University, LSE, UCL, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell and Stanford.
IST is open to anyone and everyone from all over the world. The school offers preschool for children aged 3–6, Primary school for children aged 6–11 and Secondary school for children aged 11–18. In addition to their academic studies, all students from Grade 6 and up engage in the community service-learning aspect of the IB CAS programme.
In the 2017-18 school year, IST has about 120 teachers, including from the US, the UK, Tanzania, Canada and about 14 other countries. IST commits considerable resources to staff development and has a strong, collaborative professional culture.
The average points score for IST students in the Class of 2017 was 34 (out of the maximum possible 45), compared with the worldwide average of 29.95 points. Students in the Class of 2017 earned 7 points (the maximum score possible) in the following higher level subjects: physics, biology, economics, geography, psychology and theatre. Two students earned bilingual (Swahili-English) diplomas.
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IST performs in regional ISSEA (International Schools of Southern and Eastern Africa) events in which International Schools from Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa compete and collaborate in various sports and cultural exchanges such as basketball, volleyball, swimming, poaching, track and field, STEM, Band & Choir, Art & Drama and football.
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