Echoes Foundation

The doors to Centenary opened in 1998 with 20 students, one classroom and an office. The campus has now grown to accommodate more than 800 students in secondary grades S1 to S6 in an ever expanding building of facilities.  The campus includes many more classrooms, two multi-story dormitories as most of the students live at the school, a science building, a main hall which is also a government approved testing site, a library, a computer learning room and several offices.

Today this school is a success story rating amongst the top high schools in the area and scoring high marks in the national Ugandan Examination Board testing at the end of the 4th and 6th years of high school.  Many students have achieved a result that would allow them to enter university. In 2006, Centenary ranked 178 of 2400 schools on the National O (Ordinary) Level tests; in 2007 it achieved the rank of 56 of 2,400 schools and in 2010 passed 88 students and was listed as one of the best 4 schools in their area.

These results have continued due to a dedicated and well qualified staff, scholarships offered to deserving students, and students who are proud to be part of Centenary High School. Recently proud alumni of this young high school visited and were amazed at the advances, so proud they were even seen sweeping the courtyard in front of the new girl’s dormitory.  This alumni group included many university students, business owners, and the professions of engineering, teaching, medicine, law and the creative arts.

 A letter from Sarah Serunjogi (co-founder of Centenary High School), March 2011