Le Reng S/S (Ladybrand)

Bra, Le Reng Secondary in Ladybrand, Free State. Ladybrand. Right on the Lesotho border, so close that your school's wifi probably connects to a Maseru network half the time. One teacher for every 34 kids, which means your educator is basically a taxi driver, just trying to get everyone from Point A to Point B without losing anyone out the window. Jy weet hoe is dit. 46 teachers for 1552 learners. That is not a school, that is a concert. Load shedding hits and suddenly your teacher cannot even see which row is causing chaos. The Free State sun is already doing its best to cook everyone alive, and now the fans are off too. Your educator is standing there like, "I did not sign up for this, I signed up for geography." The ratio alone should be a matric question: if one teacher has 34 learners and zero control, calculate the teacher's will to live. But here is the thing though. No fees, nearly nine hundred out of a thousand kids passing matric, in the Free State heat, with class sizes that would make a Constantia private school principal cry into his sushi. That is not a school, that is a miracle with a timetable. Overall verdict: Le Reng is basically doing Clicks-brand work on a Clicks-brand budget and somehow pulling off results that would embarrass schools charging ten times more, respect where it is due.