Natola Community Day Secondary School

Natola Community Day Secondary School is a community day secondary school (CDSS) at Madisi in Dowa District, in the Central Region of Malawi. The Malawi Electoral Commission lists it as Natola CDSS. The Commission's 2025 register of voter registration centres, in its Dowa District Council section, lists Natola CDSS as a centre in the Natola ward of the Dowa Ngala constituency. The other centres in the same ward include Ngala, Bweya, Chimwendo and Katsuka full primary schools and Kalonga ADMARC. Secondary education in Malawi runs from Form 1 to Form 4 and ends with the Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE), set by the Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB). Community day secondary schools are day schools serving their surrounding communities; they grew out of the former distance-education centres, which were converted into CDSSs in 1998. Under the Ministry of Education's Free Secondary Education initiative, public secondary schools charge no tuition, national examination or School Development Fund fees; boarding fees are not covered. Dowa is a district of the Central Region covering 3,041 square kilometres, with its administrative centre at Dowa town. Farming in the district centres on cotton, tobacco and groundnuts, and its main food crops are maize, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and pulses. Nyau dancing, inherited from the Chewa, is an integral part of local culture. Term dates, admission arrangements and a contact number for the school have not been published online.

HHQW+PPM, Madisi, Malawi
Dowa

13°24′38″S 33°35′48″E