Students At IST
IST is a highly diverse international school currently serving 1040 students from across the globe - 20% of the students are Tanzanians, 14% American, 14% British, 7% South African, and the remainder from approximately 50 other nationalities. Early Childhood and Kindergarten enrollment is 111, Grades 1-5 have 422 students, Grades 6-10 have 341 students, and Grades 11 and 12 have 154 students. IST families are a mix of long-term residents, Tanzanian citizens, expatriates in a growing private sector, and NGO and diplomatic workers from numerous donor countries. To be admitted to the pre-kindergarten a child must be 3 years of age before September 1.
Scholars from IST have gone to universities such as Berkeley, McGill, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Brown, LSE, UCL, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, and Stanford.
IST is open to anyone and everyone from all over the world. The school offers preschool for children aged 3–6, primary school for children aged 6–11 and high school for children aged 11–18 (this includes the IB years program as well). As well as their academic studies, all students from grade 6 and up engage in the community service aspect of the IB CAS programme.
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