About · Established 2010
A school built
for this town.
Since 2010, on one secured campus in Lower Mawoh — and with a 100% pass rate in the First School Leaving Certificate and Common Entrance behind us.
Our story
It began with a gap that needed filling.
In 2010, families in Lower Mawoh had a choice between schools that taught well in one language and schools that taught in two without teaching either properly. Goddy Tabi was founded to refuse that choice.
The school opened as a bilingual nursery and primary school and has stayed exactly that — no secondary section, no scattering into ventures that would thin the teaching. The intention was depth: eight classes, from pre-nursery through to Class 6, on one secured campus with the space to do it properly.
16 years later the crest still carries the founding motto, and the school still sits on the same street. What grew was the standard — and the record that goes with it. Goddy Tabi has consistently maintained a 100% pass rate in the First School Leaving Certificate and Common Entrance, on a campus that now has a full football field, a computer laboratory, clean pipe-borne water and a gated, supervised campus.
Mission
What we are trying to do.
To bring every child who passes through this school to the end of Class 6 genuinely literate in English and French, numerate, curious, and through the public examinations — which, so far, every one of them has been.
We measure that plainly. Can the child read a passage in either language and tell you what it means? Can they set out a problem and work it through? Can they sit an examination without panic? Those are the questions we ask ourselves each term, and the ones we answer honestly to parents each week.
Our values
Knowledge and wisdom — and the difference between them.
The motto on our crest names two things, not one. Knowledge is what a child is taught. Wisdom is what they do with it.
Knowledge, taught properly
A full curriculum, taught by subject, with nothing quietly dropped because it is hard to timetable. A child who has been here for six years has covered the ground.
Discipline, held kindly
Clear expectations, consistently kept, explained rather than shouted. Children work best when the rules are the same on Monday as they were on Friday.
No child left unable to read
The literacy programme carries every child to reading and writing from age three, whatever level they arrive at. A child who is slipping is visible in the same week, not at the end of the year.
Parents as partners
A school cannot raise a child on its own and should not pretend to. We tell parents what is really happening, weekly, and expect to hear back.
Leadership
Run by a lawyer trained in safety.
The school's head teacher is Alain Giresse Etongo, a Business Law graduate of the University of Douala with a substantial background in OPITO-accredited onshore and offshore safety training.
That is an unusual route into a primary school, and an unusually useful one. OPITO is an international safety standard built on written procedure, competence assessment and accountability — and a school run to that habit is one where the roll is genuinely taken, the perimeter is genuinely respected, and a lapse is treated as something to correct rather than something to explain away.
The legal training shows in the same place. The fee structure, the records and the weekly reporting to parents are documented rather than improvised, which is why a parent here can ask a question and get an answer with a date on it.
Meet the whole teamWhere we are
Lower Mawoh, Limbe.
Limbe sits on the coast of the South West Region — a bilingual city in a bilingual country, which is precisely why a school like this belongs here.
We draw our families from Lower Mawoh and the surrounding quarters. Most children come a short distance, which is part of why the school has stayed deliberately local: a parent who can reach the gate in a few minutes is a parent who comes in when it matters. And the campus itself is walled, with one gate that is watched all day.
Come and look for yourself.
A school is hard to judge from a website. Visit on an ordinary teaching day, walk past the classrooms, and ask us anything.