St Mary's Secondary School, Zomba

St Mary's Secondary School is a Roman Catholic secondary school for girls in Zomba, Malawi.

St Mary's Secondary School
Zodiak top girl award in 2019
Location
Zomba Malawi
Coordinates	15.3979°S 35.316°E / -15.3979; 35.316
Information
Established	1939 (86 years ago) (1939)

History

The school's first building was built in 1939 and it was for many years a primary school run by the Daughters of Wisdom. However in 1962 it re-opened as a secondary school and in 1971 additional buildings meant that it could become a boarding school.^{[1][citation needed]}

Its capacity has been 340 pupils but the actual number of students can be 600.^[2]

Of the eleven awardees with the highest marks in the country in 2018, four were students at St Mary's.^[3] In the 2019 MCSE examination results, St Mary's secured a place in the top ten schools in Malawi.^[4]

The school's library could accommodate 120 pupils but thanks to a bank's donation the library was expanded to take 200 pupils.^[5]

The head of the school was Sister Mary Chimalizeni before she became the provincial superior of the Daughters of Wisdom.^[2]

Alumni

• Gertrude Mutharika, First Lady of Malawi.^[6]