Mount Pleasant School is located in the suburb of
Mount Pleasant,
Harare
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Zimbabwe
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The school came into being on 1 January 1957 as Mt. Pleasant Boys’ High school. In 1969 the first girls were enrolled and it became a co-educational institution know simply as Mt Pleasant High School. The school has since been making great strides over the years to improve the education of its learners and even more recently through its recently established digital learning program for pupils and teachers.
The school motto "... a man of understanding walks upright" comes from
Proverbs
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15:21. The school emblem is the
impala
The impala or rooibok (''Aepyceros melampus'', lit. 'black-footed high-horn' in Ancient Greek) is a medium-sized antelope found in eastern and southern Africa. The only extant member of the genus '' Aepyceros'', and tribe Aepycerotini, it ...
, hence the designation ''Old Impalian'' for old boys and old girls.
Mount Pleasant School was ranked 58th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by ''Africa Almanac'' in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, internet and news visibility.
References
High schools in Zimbabwe
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