Gateway High School (Zimbabwe)

Gateway High School is a Christian co-educational school in Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. It has 700 students from Form 1 to Upper 6. The school had its first form 1 intake in 1991 and the first upper 6 class graduated in 1995 under the headship of Paul Revell, along with Marcus Chibisa and Ron Montague as his deputies. The school is located on Sam Nujoma Street (previously Golden Stairs Road and Second Street Extension).

The school prepares students for the University of Cambridge O-Level and A-Level examinations.

The school has been blessed with a very athletic student body with strong soccer, rugby, basketball and hockey teams, the Bombers, Warthogs, Sniperz and Scorpions respectively. The school's First XV rugby team have often toured some of the best rugby playing schools in South Africa and the United Kingdom. The Soccer Team has been successful on tours of South Africa since 2007, with several players selected to play for the Zimbabwe u17 team. The Soccer team has also been successful at the CHISZ schools Soccer tournament reaching the semi finals in 2005 and 2006.

Gateway High School was named in 2003 in the top twenty best high schools in Africa, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of old boys and old girls, school profile, internet and news visibility.[1]

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  1. Africa Almanac Research, 2003. Africa's Top 100 High Schools

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Coordinates: 17°45′38″S 31°01′43″E / 17.7606°S 31.0287°E