Schools in the Chris Hani West district of the Department of Education have produced a mixed bag of results for the 2023 matric class.
They range from the highest of 99% to the lowest of 63%. Some schools have improved while others have declined.
Leading the pack is Queenstown Girls High School (HS) with 98.9%, a repeat pass rate of the 2022 class.
Following closely behind is Get Ahead at 98.1% an improvement from the 90.7% achieved in 2022.Queen’s College Boys’ HS improved from last year’s 88.9% to 97.3% in 2023 with Hoërskool Hangklip following the same trend by improving from 92.1% to 95.9%. Oliviet Private School took a slight dip from 96.6% to 94.6% while Hexagon HS dropped 5.1% from 93.1% to 88%.
Abambo HS is the most improved school climbing from 66% in 2022 to an impressive 83.3% in 2023.Nkwanca HS also suffered a minor setback when moving from 82.5% to 81% with John Noah HS copying the pattern with the results of 80.8% in 2022 and 78.2% in 2023. Luvuyo Lerumo HS is the most regressed of the group dropping from 87.5% in 2022 to 77.8% in 2023. Bulelani Senior Secondary School (SSS) showed a gutsy improvement landing at 77.4% from attaining 67.6% in 2022.Maria Louw HS and KwaKomani Comprehensive School both dipped slightly from 77.3% to 76.4% and 73.7% to 72.4% respectively. While WB Rubusana SSS is at the bottom of the barrel, it improved immensely from 62.3% to 68.9%.
The district has contributed 80.9% in the provincial 81.42% class of 2023 pass rate.
