Richard Gatere Maina
Head Teacher
[Photograph to be provided by the school]
Alpha High School, Mikocheni, Dar es Salaam: Excellence through challenge.Built for the long climb.
Our flagship secondary in Mikocheni, Dar es Salaam: boys and girls, Form 1 to Form 6, the Tanzanian national curriculum to NECTA, with aviation and coding on the timetable.
A school that teaches the whole student.
Established 19 March 2007, Alpha High was founded to enable students to achieve academic excellence through intellectual and physical challenge, and to become responsible citizens of a dynamic society.
- A source of intellectual, spiritual and cultural growth.
- Knowledge that meets individual needs.
- Critical and divergent thinking.
- All-rounded students.
- Attitudes that make students social, mobile, interactive, ambitious and self-directed.
- Campus
- Mikocheni, Dar es Salaam
- Intake
- Co-education, boys and girls
- Levels
- Form 1 to Form 6: CSEE and ACSEE
- Established
- 19 March 2007
Seventeen subjects at O-Level, twelve combinations at A-Level.
Every subject examinable across Forms One to Four, what a pupil in each form may choose between, and all twelve A-Level combinations with their subjects written out. Pick a form or a stream, or search a subject.
All subjects taught17 of 17
Every subject examinable at O-Level. Choose a form above to see what a pupil in that form picks between.
- Historia ya Tanzania na Maadili
- Civics
- History
- Geography
- Kiswahili
- English Language
- Business Studies
- Book Keeping
- Computer Science
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Biology
- Chinese
- French
- Literature in English
- ICS
- Additional Mathematics
[Which of these seventeen are core for every pupil, and which are offered as options — to be provided by the school.]
Not sure which combination fits? The academic team can talk a pupil through the options before Form Five. Talk to our team
Also on the timetable.
The results, as NECTA published them.
One square for every student who sat the exam, coloured by the division they reached.
Form Four 2025: 60 of 92 in Division I. All 92 passed.
Form Six 2026: 161 of 188 in Division I or II. Nobody below Division III.
The year before: 39 in Division I. In 2025, 60.
Form Four 2024, 90 students.
- Form Four centre GPA
- Grade B (Very Good): 1.9439 in 2025, from 2.2157 in 2024.
- English Language
- Grade A (Excellent): GPA 1.5761 across all 92 Form Four students in 2025.
- Form Six centre GPA
- Grade C (Good): 2.5062 in 2026, 188 candidates.
And beyond the exam hall.
2nd overall out of 24 schools.
At the 9th Tanzania Women Engineers Convention Exhibition (TAWECE 2024) at the JNICC, Alpha High and Alpha Girls students presented five projects: a Smart Reading Table, Smart Blind Glasses, a Radar and a Smart Blind Stick from Alpha High, and Greenhouse Effects from Alpha Girls.
Alpha Schools on Instagram, 22 August 2024
Engineering · 2024
Best Institution from East Africa.
At the Tanzania National World Schools Debate Championship 2026, Alpha took two awards: Best Institution from East Africa, and Junior Plate winners.
Alpha Schools on Instagram, 17 August 2026
Debate · 2026
The other half of an Alpha education.
Ten student-led clubs, five sports, trips out of the gate, four meals a day and a counselling department. The photographs are the school's own, from its folder and its Instagram.
Clubs and sport.
Ten clubs, every one student-led. Club photographs appear here as the school uploads them.
- Aviation
- Drama
- Music & Dance
- Debate
- Art & Drawing
- Cookery
- Scout
- Public Speaking
- Model UN
- Environment
[Club photographs — to be provided by the school]
The decks, and the beach.
The DJ club on the decks; the environment club's beach clean-up.
Alpha Schools on Instagram, June 2024
Sport
- Football
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- Netball
- Athletics
Counselling
Alpha High runs a school counselling department, accessible to every student: confidential, professional, and built into school life.
Out of the gate.
Trips the school has posted about.
On air at TBC.
A visit to the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation: the news desk, the studio cameras, the control room.
Alpha Schools on Instagram, 6 August 2024
Out at TIMEXPO.
Alpha students at the Tanzania International Manufacturers Expo at Diamond Jubilee.
Alpha Schools on Instagram, 21 October 2023
Every day.
The library, the lunch line and the desks.
Four meals a day.
Good food, properly served: four meals every day, with fruit and vegetables daily.
Alpha Schools on Instagram, 5 October 2021
Reading is on the timetable.
Shelves of set books and references, quiet desks, and tablets in class alongside the books.
Alpha High, school photographs; Instagram, August 2023
Giving back.
Alpha Aid.
The school's charity event: students giving time to a community visit.
Alpha High, school photographs
Graduation day.
Form Four in their gowns, and Form Six two years on: the climb finished.
Form Four, together on the stage.
Alpha High, school photographs
Class of 2026.
Alpha High, school photographs
Form Six, done.
The people behind the climb.
How a place at Alpha High is offered.
Four steps, as the school documents them.
- 1
Pay the application fee of TSh 35,000
- 2
Sit the entrance examination
- 3
Pass at the school average of 55%
- 4
Receive joining instructions after paying TSh 500,000 as part of the first tuition instalment
These two figures are part of the admission process, not the cost of attending. [Fee structure per school — to be provided]
[Entry requirements — to be confirmed with academic offices]
Applications for the next intake are open.
Visit Mikocheni, sit the assessment, join the climb.