Kutama College

Kutama College
Address
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Private Bag 909 Norton

Mashonaland West About 80km by road from Harare Main post office

Coordinates17°48′24″S 30°23′10″E / 17.8067°S 30.3861°E / -17.8067; 30.3861
Information
TypePrivate Catholic boarding high school
Motto
  • Esse Quam Videri
  • (To be, rather than to seem / Be what You Are!)
Established1914; 110 years ago (1914)
PrincipalFrancis Mukoyi
GradesForm 1 – Upper Six
Age12 to 18
Enrollment450 -500 boys and girls.
Color(s)
  •   Blue
  •   Gold
RivalSt. Ignatius College, Zimbabwe
YearbookEcho Chronicle
TuitionUSD$2 500.00
Websitekutamacollege.ac.zw

Kutama College (officially St Francis Xavier College) is a private Catholic independent boarding high school near Norton, Zimbabwe in the Zvimba area, 80 kilometres southwest of Harare. Grown out of a Mission station founded in 1914 and run by the Marist Brothers, Kutama has a student population of about 700 pupils.

Kutama College is one of the largest top schools in Zimbabwe. Kutama College was ranked 26th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2017, based on quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, internet and news visibility.[1]

The school moto "Esse Quam Videri" is Latin meaning "to be, rather than to seem".

  1. ^ "top20highschools". Africa Almanac. Africa Almanac. 1 October 2003. Archived from the original on 14 January 2007. Retrieved 19 June 2016. The research leading up to the publication of the 100 Best High Schools in Africa began with the launching of the website in December 2000.