St. Joseph's College, Kgale

St. Joseph's College
Location
Gaborone, Botswana
Information
Type	Government aided mission school
Motto	Per Aspera Ad Astra
Religious affiliation(s)	Christianity
Established	1928 (1928)
Sister school	Mater Spei College
Principal	Ms C. Male
Chaplain	Father Lawrence
Grades	Form 4 (Grade 11), Form 5 (Grade 12)
Gender	Co-educational
Nickname	St. Joe

St. Joseph's College is a government aided Catholic Institution located in Gaborone, Botswana ^[1] founded in 1928 by the Catholic Church to form and inform Batswana children. St. Joseph's College, Kgale is a government aided mission school; financed by the government of Botswana and owned and managed by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaborone.^[2]

The college follows the National Curriculum as outlined by the Ministry of Education and Skills Development^[3] and at the end of their academic programme, students sit for the Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) terminal examination.^[4] St. Joseph's has been the leading government senior school in the country, academically, for a number of years and is a school well known for disciplined behaviour of its students. It came out victorious in the 2015 national examinations, as 51.29% of its students managed to scoop 5 credits or better making it the only government senior school to exceed a percentage of 40 in that year.^[5]