St. Augustine Catholic Primary School

St. Augustine Catholic Primary School is a Catholic primary school in the town of Mangochi, Mangochi District, Malawi. It is one of a group of schools bearing the St. Augustine name in the town. The Malawi Electoral Commission's 2025 register of centres, in its section for Mangochi Municipal Council, lists St. Augustine I School in Ndege ward, St. Augustine II School in Mwasa ward and St. Augustine III School in Nkanamwano ward, each as a polling centre, and names the St. Augustine III teacher development centre (TDC) as the tally centre for the Mangochi Municipal constituency. Primary education in Malawi runs from Standard 1 to Standard 8 and ends with the Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE), set by the Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB). Tuition has been free in government primary schools since 1994. Many Malawian primary schools were founded by churches and still carry a church name while forming part of the national school system. Mangochi is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangochi, which was established in 1969 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Fort Johnston and raised to a diocese in 1973; the town has a modern Catholic cathedral. Known in colonial times as Fort Johnston, Mangochi was founded in the 1890s by the administrator Sir Harry Johnston and lies near the southern end of Lake Malawi, between the main lakeshore road and the Shire River. It had 53,498 residents at the 2018 census, the Yao being the main ethnic group, and is home to the Lake Malawi Museum and a clock tower erected in honour of Queen Victoria. The school has not published a telephone number, fees or term dates online, so it is worth asking locally before travelling.

G789+WRF, Mangochi, Malawi
Mangochi

14°28′57″S 35°16′13″E