{"id":847873,"date":"2026-01-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=847873"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:58:13","slug":"unique-south-african-school-achieves-100-university-exemption-and-4-4-distinctions-per-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/847873\/unique-south-african-school-achieves-100-university-exemption-and-4-4-distinctions-per-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique South African school achieves 100% university exemption and 4.4 distinctions per student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yeshiva College achieved something very special. It achieved a 100% pass rate, 100% university exemption, and 4.4 distinctions per student in the 2025 matric exams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeshiva College of South Africa, located in Glenhazel, Johannesburg, is the country\u2019s largest religious Jewish day school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is an independent private school that follows a Modern Orthodox and Religious Zionist philosophy. Pupils study a double curriculum, focusing on Torah and secular studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school was founded in 1951 by Rabbi Michel Kossowsky and Rabbi Joseph Bronner, who had settled in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kossowsky was an Eastern European Talmudic scholar ,and Bronner was an alumnus of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeshiva College showed strong growth and became the largest torah school in Southern Africa and amongst the largest in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeshiva has over 1040 students across its playschool, pre-primary school, primary school, girls’ high school, and boys’ high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cZionism and a deep commitment to the people, land and state of Israel are at the heart of our ethos,\u201d the school said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sport is central to the school\u2019s curriculum, and Yeshiva continues to excel across all sporting arenas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur mission is to create a nurturing environment in which the school partners with parents to provide excellence in Torah Chinuch and general studies,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis helps prepare children for life and its responsibilities as Torah Jews, with values in line with the core values of our school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school focuses on academic excellence, which is evident in its consistently outstanding matric results and 100% pass rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeshiva College 2025 matric results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yeshiva College writes the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As was the case in previous years, it excelled in the 2025 matric exams with a 100% pass rate and 100% university exemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeshiva College achieved 4.4 distinctions per student, which places it ahead of other top-priced schools like Roedean School for Girls and St Mary\u2019s Waverly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two students received 9 distinctions, three received 8 distinctions, four students received 7 distinctions, and seven students received 6 distinctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeshiva College achieved a matric grade average of 78.9% and four students were in the top 1% of their subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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