The school’s location and appearance are thus described by A. K. Sempa in his 1941 article African Schools. The first building was situated between the present Namirembe (now Mengo) Primary School and the Cathedral (Namirembe).
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So in 1895, an elementary mixed school known as Kayanja was founded at Mengo, making it one of the first standard formal schools in Uganda.
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But the numbers kept growing, with students coming from as far as Busoga, Bunyoro, Toro and Ankole.
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The magazine points out that most of the first students who enrolled in the first Mengo School (Kayanja) became school masters posted by Church Councils to rural areas.
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