{"id":844494,"date":"2025-11-25T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=844494"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:18:33","slug":"massive-new-private-school-launching-in-the-western-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/844494\/massive-new-private-school-launching-in-the-western-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive new private school launching in the Western Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new private school will soon open in the Western Cape as Apex Education prepares to launch Apex Pinelands in Conradie Park, Pinelands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school is being developed through a partnership with Concor, the company responsible for transforming the precinct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conradie Park was once an underused piece of land but has now been rebuilt as a mixed-use community with affordable housing, schools, healthcare services, shops, and green spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal is to create a neighbourhood where people can live, work, learn, and relax in one connected environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apex Pinelands will open in January 2026 with its first Grade 1 and Grade 8 learners. The high school will start with 100 learners, who will attend classes in a heritage hall while the new campus is being built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Construction is expected to finish by December 2026. When complete, the campus will offer Grade R to 12 and accommodate up to 1,720 learners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development will also create more than 70 jobs in the area, supporting community growth and providing new opportunities for residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Western Cape\u2019s Provincial Minister of Education, David Maynier, welcomed the project. He said the partnership is an important step in expanding access to good schools in the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Maynier, Apex Pinelands will offer thousands of children better learning opportunities and shows how government and private organisations can work together to meet the province\u2019s growing education needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

APEX Education is a non-profit organisation that builds affordable private schools using a blended learning model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This model combines online lessons with in-person support and makes it possible to deliver quality education at lower fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisation already runs schools in Eersterivier and Kayamandi in Stellenbosch, and Apex Pinelands will be the latest addition to its network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jana du Plooy, CEO of Apex Education, said the new school shows what can be achieved when government supports organisations trying to bring change to communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said Apex Pinelands will allow children to access quality education close to home instead of having to travel far to find better opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wesgro CEO Wrenelle Stander also welcomed the project, and said that improving access to education is essential for economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said Edu Invest, which supports new school developments, is committed to bringing more schools to the province and believes Apex Pinelands will have a lasting, positive impact on the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new school follows the success of several other Apex schools, including Apex Stellenbosch, which opened in January 2024 and operates as the organisation\u2019s flagship campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apex schools keep fees low by standardising learning materials and using digital resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learners work in large classes of about 100, moving through online lessons that include notes, videos, quizzes, and regular tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual fee for 2025 is R7,440, or R620 per month. In 2026, fees will be R7,800, or R650 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These fees are significantly cheaper than most private and many high-end public schools, which fits Apex\u2019s goal of making quality education more accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apex Education\u2019s blended learning model was shaped over several years. The organisation started in 2018 as a no-fee public school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Covid-19 hit, Apex shifted online and provided learners with data to continue their studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also built its own online learning system. When schools reopened in 2020, Apex used a mix of in-person and online classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 2022, it was testing a full blended learning model, and its results were similar to traditional schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This encouraged the team to expand the model further and open the low-fee private Stellenbosch Apex campus in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new private school will soon open in Cape Town after the successful launch of several other sister schools. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":844504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[24010,24253,853],"class_list":["post-844494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-apex-education","tag-apex-pinelands","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844514,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844494\/revisions\/844514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}