Lycée Sainte Marie Ilebo
The Technical and Commercial School and St Mary's School share the same school buildings at Ilebo. Lessons are taught at the Technical and Commercial School in the morning and St Mary's, a single sex school for girls, has lessons in the afternoon. While the morning classes follow the traditional curriculum for such schools including touch typing, the girls' school specialises in teaching the skills of dress making to the girls. Ilebo was once a 24/7 thriving port and railhead but today there is little work for the 50,000 inhabitants.
