{"id":612018,"date":"2022-07-31T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=612018"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T10:37:56","slug":"these-are-the-best-performing-public-schools-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/612018\/these-are-the-best-performing-public-schools-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the best-performing public schools in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Basic Education was asked to identify the top-performing schools in every province in South Africa, and identified over 320 and public and private schools that attained a 100% pass rate in the 2021 National Senior Certificate exams.<\/p>\n

Responding to parliamentary Q&A this week, the department split the top performers across English-speaking, Afrikaans-speaking and dual-medium schools.<\/p>\n

According to the department, most of the top-performing schools are English-speaking<\/a>, making up 212 of the total identified. There were 57 Afrikaans medium<\/a> schools, and 55 dual-medium<\/a> schools identified.<\/p>\n

While the department identified 324 schools that had an exceptional performance in the 2021 matric exams, its assessment report goes even further and lists the schools that have put in a consistently perfect performance over the last five years.<\/p>\n

Here, it listed 91 schools that have attained a 100% matric pass rate since 2017.<\/p>\n

Most of the schools are located in the country’s biggest economic centres in Gauteng (25 schools), KwaZulu-Natal (22 schools) and Cape Town (22 schools), with the Free State also featuring a large number of schools (14).<\/p>\n

The North West has four schools in the perfect ranking, followed by the Eastern Cape with two, and Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape with one school each.<\/p>\n

No schools from Limpopo feature on the list.<\/p>\n

Of all the schools that managed to maintain a perfect matric pass rate for five years, Phumanyova High in Zululand, KZN, had the highest number of matriculants in 2021, with all 350 learners who sat the exams passing.<\/p>\n

This was followed by Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof in Tshwane, Gauteng, with 316 learners, and Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Meisieskool in the same region, with 249.<\/p>\n

The table below outlines the top performing school in each province, ranked by the number of matrics that passed the 2021 exams.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Province<\/th>\nSchool<\/th>\nWrote 2021<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
KZN<\/td>\nPhumanyova High<\/td>\n350<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GP<\/td>\nHo\u00ebrskool Waterkloof<\/td>\n316<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WC<\/td>\nBelville High School<\/td>\n201<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FS<\/td>\nEunice Secondary School<\/td>\n163<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EC<\/td>\nUlwazi High School<\/td>\n161<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NW<\/td>\nWesvalia High School<\/td>\n136<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NC<\/td>\nHo\u00ebrskool Hopetown<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MP<\/td>\nHIghveld Muslim Combine<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The table below outlines the top 20 schools in the country, ranked by the number of matrics that passed the 2021 exams.<\/p>\n

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The 91 schools with 100% matric pass rates for the last five years can be seen below:<\/p>\n