Vincent High School (East London)

Broe, Vincent High School in East London is serving 74 learners with 5 teachers and honestly that sounds less like a school and more like a very ambitious home school that got out of hand. Seventy four kids. That is not a student body, that is a WhatsApp group. You know that one family that has too many cousins? That is basically the entire school right there. And those 5 teachers are carrying this whole thing on their backs like they are trying to move furniture in a bakkie with no suspension. One of them is definitely teaching Maths, Science, Life Orientation, and probably also doing the tuck shop on Fridays. The ratio is 14.8 to 1 which sounds fine until you realise that is 14.8 kids staring at one exhausted human being who signed up for this knowing full well what they were walking into. Respect, honestly, but also, eish. Then the school describes itself and says, "it does not offer boarding facilities," like that is a flex. Broe, you have 74 learners, nobody is driving from Grahamstown to come board at Vincent High. The whole description reads like a matric essay introduction where the kid is buying time before they get to the actual point. "An independent co-educational high school located in East London, Eastern Cape." Yes. We can see that. Say something interesting. Overall verdict: Vincent High is basically a family business that accidentally became a school, and somehow that makes it more charming than it has any right to be.