Welcome to
Mukwashi Trust School

1 %

gained
certificates
at grade 7
2024

1 %

gained
certificates
at grade 9
2024

1 %

gained
certificates
at grade 12
2024

About the school:

Mukwashi is a prestigious school by the Mumbwa Rd in Lusaka West which provides the highest possible quality education at a very affordable price.

It is a licensed pre, primary and secondary school which educates children from age 3 to Grade 12. It is also a national examination centre for Grades 7, 9 & 12 – so its learners don’t have to travel to sit exams.

The school operates as a charity and is recognised by the government as a Public Benefit Organisation. This means nobody is trying to make a profit from your children’s education.

Mukwashi provides two specialist ‘Catch Up Classes’, with their own full-time literacy and numeracy teachers, for children who start schooling late or who return to school after a gap. It also provides an ‘Extra Class’ which offers additional learning in Maths, Science & English for those in Grades 4-7 seeking all-day schooling.

There is a free nutritious meal for all learners every day, and a safe, subsidised school-bus service runs along the Mumbwa Road between Mwembeshi and Garden House.

New facilities:

In 2022, Mukwashi opened a large, new toilet and shower block for the whole school.

In 2023, it built a business laboratory for its secondary learners to gain ‘hands-on’ skills in developing and managing a business.

And in 2024, it built two ‘improved living’ accommodation blocks for its teaching staff to help attract the very best teachers to the school.

About the learners:

Mukwashi’s learners obtain higher marks than children at other schools. In 2024, 87% of its G7s passed the national exam and proceeded to secondary education, compared to an average of only 69% across all other schools; 91% of its G9s gained a School Certificate, when the national average was only 56%; and 73% of its G12s gained a National Certificate, when the average of other schools (including all boarding and STEM schools) was only 67%.

At Mukwashi, learners use a modern science laboratory, over 4,000 of the most up-to-date textbooks and an Afro-centric reading scheme to help everyone learn to read English fluently and enthusiastically.

Theye also use a library with over 1,500 books, a large market garden and orchard for practical learning, and livestock to gain confidence in handling animals.

Their classes:

They learn in dedicated classes for every year from pre-school through to Grade 12. Learners enjoy much smaller class sizes and more highly qualified staff than children at other schools.

In Grades 8 & 9, Mukwashi offers all compulsory subjects plus computer studies. It provides the ‘agriculture pathway’ in Grades 10-12, and combines this with business subjects.

About the staff:

Mukwashi’s excellent staff are some of the best trained in Zambia: a senior education professor at Oxford University in the UK oversees their professional development.

The specialist subjects in the secondary school:

English

Maths

Integrated Science

Agricultural Science

Computer Studies

Religious Education

Commerce

Social Studies

Accounts

Physical Education

Business Studies

Civic Education

Grade 10-12 learners follow the agricultural science pathway

By law, in addition to subjects like English and Maths, every school must provide their learners with practical knowledge, skills and experience in one area — as a ‘pathway’ to subsequent training or employment.

Because Mukwashi serves a farming community, Agricultural Science is the best pathway for its secondary learners. This is combined with Business Studies, Accounts and Commerce to help learners think about agriculture as a genuine business and important career.

The school also provides every secondary learner with a plot of land in our Agricultural Laboratory to ensure they gain practical ‘hands-on’ experience of growing crops. This gives them the knowledge, skills and values to serve their community and help it prosper.