Collège Et Lycée Raponda Walker
Collège et Lycée Raponda Walker is a Private school, private Catholic school, Catholic primary and secondary school, located in Port-Gentil, the second largest city in Gabon. The school was established in 1930 and has arroximately 1,000 pupils. Since 1975 it has been named for André Raponda Walker, a writer and the first Catholic priest in Gabon.LFM: "Social Sciences and Missions"
. December 2006. Retrieved 11 August 2008.

History

The school was started in 1930 in the grounds of the new church of St. Louis by Father René Lefèbre. (The church had only been built in 1927.) The school was named then after the church.
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Private School
A private school or independent school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a State school, public school. Private schools are schools that are not dependent upon national or local government to finance their financial endowment. Unless privately owned they typically have a board of governors and have a system of governance that ensures their independent operation. Private schools retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students for Tuition payments, tuition, rather than relying on taxation through public (government) funding; at some private schools students may be eligible for a scholarship, lowering this tuition fee, dependent on a student's talents or abilities (e.g., sports scholarship, art scholarship, academic scholarship), need for financial aid, or Scholarship Tax Credit, tax credit scholarships that might be available. Roughly one in 10 U.S. families have chosen to enroll their childr ...
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