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Annual Report 1951
 E’ negli ani ‘50 che il Comboni College raggiunge la piena maturità. La scuola si presenta con un corpo docenti qualificato e con una considerevole esperienza. I risultati non tardarono a venire. I dati statistici relativi agli studenti del Comboni College evidenziarono quasi sempre un’alto grado di preparazione. In certi anni il College ottenne i migliori risultati a livello nazionale. Si formò così la buona reputazione del College che ancora oggi circonda le attività della scuola.

P. F. Sina "Annual Report Oxford Certificate Class", in Comboni College 1951.

The results of the last School Certificate Examination held in the College are alluded to in the Principal’s Report that heads this year-book, and appear in detail below. Rather than stressing once again the exceptionally high percentage of certificates gained in it, let us dwell on some of its aspects.
The number of exemptions from matriculation, both from the London and from the Cairo one, was higher than on any former similar occasion. The girls did at least as well as the boys in this respect. This, incidentally, is a tribute to the efficiency of the Sisters School of Khartoum and Omdurman, where girls were trained.

The results, excellent as they generally were in all subjects, were particularly good in English Language and Mathematics. Many candidates passed with credit with the former, and one gained even distinction in it; even more were the credits and distinctions in Mathematics. Here again the girls did as well as the boys and proved the falsehood of the legend that Mathematics is an almost closed book for girls.
We record the flattering results in Mathematics also as a tribute to Mahmoud Eff. Shah, a former teacher of Mathematics at Comboni College, who saw last year’s certificate candidates through the gruelling time of immediate preparation; to his patience and unusual skill last year’s success was largely due. This, of course, is no minimising of the part played by other Mathematics teachers during the time of remoter preparation: it is only to show how genuinely grateful we are to him, and how sorry to have lost his services.

Some of the letters received from last year’s graduates on the occasion of the distribution of certificates (April 2nd, 1951), express the writers’ gratitude to the school not only for the mental training, but also for the moral side of the education received in it. Such letters were particularly gratifying because they expressed what is the main object of the school and also, we flatter ourselves, its positive achievement: the gradual, all embracing education and formation of the whole man.

Fr. Philip O. Sina