Chipoka Secondary School

Chipoka Secondary School is a secondary school at Chipoka in Salima District, on the shore of Lake Malawi in the Central Region of Malawi. A report published by mwCERT, the cybersecurity unit of the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA), describes the school as a Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) cluster centre for six surrounding schools, two of which are Lifidzi CDSS and Ngodzi CDSS. The same report records that the school hosted a Safer Internet Day outreach programme in February 2024, part of a nationwide campaign run by MACRA with local NGOs, at which fake examination papers circulating on social media were raised as a problem for students. Secondary education in Malawi runs from Form 1 to Form 4 and ends with the Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE), set by MANEB. Community day secondary schools (CDSS), such as the two cluster schools named above, grew out of the former distance-education centres converted in 1998. Chipoka lies on the western shore of Kasangha Bay, across the water from Cape Maclear. It is one of the main ports on Lake Malawi and the closest port to Lilongwe, has a railway station, and had 6,395 residents at the 2018 census. Salima District, whose administrative centre is Salima town, had 478,346 residents at the 2018 census; the beach at Senga Bay is a popular weekend retreat from Lilongwe. Fees, term dates and admission arrangements have not been published online.

R8CG+CR5, M5, Salima, Malawi
Salima

13°10′44″S 34°19′38″E