Dar es Salaam International Academy (commonly known as DIA) is a coeducational day school located on Sandvik Road in the Masaki area of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The institution distinguishes itself as a full-continuum International Baccalaureate (IB) World School, guiding students through primary, middle, and senior school levels via the Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP), and the IB Diploma Programme (DP). This seamless, end-to-end IB framework offers families an inquiry-based, globally recognized education within a close-knit school community.
What teachers and parents say
Positives
- Convenient Masaki location, offering a significantly easier commute for families and staff based on the peninsula.
- Engaging, kind students, whom educators consistently highlight as a major bright spot to teach.
- Curricular flexibility, giving teachers substantial freedom and autonomy in planning units of inquiry.
Negatives
- Challenging leadership and culture, with teacher forums citing unsupportive management, a toxic work environment, and high staff turnover.
- Low compensation and limited resources, with salaries that struggle against high upfront housing costs alongside complaints of poor facilities and scarce classroom supplies.
- Address
- 8-10 Sandvik Road, MasakiDar es SalaamTanzania
- Website
- www.diatz.cc
- [email protected]
- Phone
- Tanzania (+255) +255 22 2600202
- System
- IB
- Curriculum
- IB Diploma, IB Middle Years, IB Primary Years
- Levels
- Primary, Middle school, Senior school
- Enrollment
- 238
- Students
- Coeducational
