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Concordia College is a school in
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, the capital of
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. It is situated on Windhoek's Hochland Road between suburbs of
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and Hochland Park. it had 1,023 learners and was one of nine Namibian schools to offer
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as a foreign language. The school facility was privately owned by Consolidated Diamond Mines (CDM, now Namdeb), the Namibian subsidiary of
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. The school was expected to provide education for children judged highly intelligent, with the aim of providing a pool of youths to be educated as teachers. It was operated by the then colonial administration of Namibia. It was the first multi-racial state-operated school in Namibia. Establishment of the facility by De Beers was reflected in the school's diamond-shaped logo. After independence the school was donated to
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. The requirement of an IQ test as a prerequisite for admission was abandoned in 1993.


References

* Concordia School Handbook Schools in Windhoek {{Namibia-school-stub