Matric 2022 Awards to Schools

Western Cape Education Department
National Senior Certificate Examinations 2022

Awards to Schools

In the first category, schools are awarded in terms of Improvement in pass rate, greatest increase in the percentage of candidates achieving access to Bachelor’s degree studies, improvement and excellence in individual subjects and excellence in academic performance.

In the second category, awards are made to all public, independent and Technical Schools that achieve excellence in academic performance.

All schools will receive a certificate.

Category 1: Most Improved Schools

Category 1A: Most Improved Public Schools

Awards will be made to ten (10) public schools with 30 or more candidates that have shown the greatest improvement in pass rate over the period 2020 to 2022. The criteria also include consistency in the number of Grade 12 candidates over the 3-year period from 2020 to 2022.

1. Scottsville High School


2. Manenberg Sekondêre Skool


3. Crystal High School


4. Silikamva High School


5. Rosendaal Sekondêre Skool


6. Môrester Sekondêre Skool


7. Simanyene High School


8. Ceres Sekondêre Skool


9. Nomzamo High School


10. Princeton High School

Category 1B: Most Improved Technical High School

1. Môrester Sekondêre Skool

Category 1C: Greatest increase in the percentage of Bachelor's passes

Awards will be made to ten (10) schools with 30 or more candidates that have shown the greatest increase in the percentage of candidates achieving access to Bachelor’s degree studies over the period 2020 to 2022. The criteria also include consistency in number of Grade 12 candidates over the 3-year period from 2020 to 2022.

1. Silikamva High School


2. Hoërskool Grabouw


3. Fezekile Secondary School


4. Hector Peterson Secondary School


5. Simanyene High School


6. De Rust Futura Akademie


7. Nomzama High School


8. Peak View Secondary School


9. Hoërskool Murraysburg


10. Manenberg Sekondêre Skool

Category 1D: Improvement and excellence in individual subjects

Improvement

For Mathematics, this is awarded to ONE school in the province that obtained the highest score when combining the following:  change in percentage of candidates in the cohort taking Mathematics, the change in the pass rate for Mathematics, the change in the subject average for Mathematics and the change in the number of candidates taking Mathematics. Minimum enrolment of 30 candidates is required.

The same criteria applied for improvement in Physical Sciences.

Improvement in Mathematics: Usasazo Secondary School

Improvement in Physical Sciences: Intlanganiso Secondary School

For Home languages, this is awarded to ONE school in the province that showed the greatest improvement in the average for English Home Language, Afrikaans Home Language and Xhosa Home Language in 2022, compared to their subject average in 2021. Minimum enrolment of 30 candidates is required.

Improvement in English HL: Hoërskool Oudtshoorn

Improvement in Afrikaans HL: Diazville High School

Improvement in Xhosa HL: Peak View Secondary School | Ashton Public Combined School

Excellence

For Mathematics and Physical Sciences, this is awarded to ONE school in the province that obtained the highest score when combining the following:  percentage of candidates in the cohort taking Mathematics and Physical Sciences, the pass rate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences, the subject average for Mathematics and Physical Sciences and the number of candidates taking Mathematics and Physical Sciences. (Weighting the same for all four criteria).

Excellence in Mathematics: Herschel Girls School

Excellence in Physical Sciences: Claremont High School

For Excellence in Home languages, this is awarded to ONE school in the province that produced the highest pass rate in English Home Language, Afrikaans Home Language and Xhosa Home Language in 2022 and had the highest average in English Home Language, Afrikaans Home Language and Xhosa Home Language in 2022. (Weighting of 50% for each of the two criteria).

Excellence in English HL: Herschel Girls School

Excellence in Afrikaans HL: Hoër Meisieskool Bloemhof

Excellence in Xhosa HL: Centre of Science and Technology

Category 2: Excellence in Academic Performance

In this category, awards are presented to the top three Technical Schools, the top three schools in the province with an NSC enrolment of less than 30 candidates and the top 20 schools with 30 or more candidates that have achieved excellence in academic results in 2022.

2A: The top three Technical High Schools are:

1. Langenhoven Gimnasium


2. Wynberg Boys' High School


3. Hoër Tegniese Skool Drostdy

2B: The top three schools with an NSC enrolment of less than 80 candidates are:

1. Somerset West Private School


2. Cannons Creek School


3. Montgomery and Miller Academy

2C: The top 20 schools in the province with an NSC enrolment of 80 or more candidates (including independent schools) that have achieved excellence in academic results in 2022 are:

1. Herschel Girls School


2. Rustenburg Girls' High School


3. Diocesan College (Bishops)


4. Westerford High School


5. Hoër Meisieskool Bloemhof


6. Springfield Convent of the Holy Rosary


7. Claremont High School


8. Paarl Girls’ High School


9. Rhenish Girls' High School


10. Rondebosch Boys' High School


11. Herzlia High School


12. Hoër Meisieskool La Rochelle


13. Paul Roos Gimnasium


14. Oakdale Landbouskool


15. Parklands College


16. Wynberg Girls' High School


17. SA College High School (SACS)


18. Parel Vallei High School


19. Hoërskool DF Malan


20. Hoërskool Stellenberg