HoëRskool Wonderfontein (Carletonville)

Hoërskool Wonderfontein in Carletonville. Wonderfontein. They named the school "Wonder Fountain" and then put it in Carletonville, the town literally built on top of sinkholes. The ground can swallow a house whole but sure, broe, let us build a school here and call it a wonder. The real wonder is that the foundation is still there. Now 45 educators for 1035 learners, that is a 23 to 1 ratio. That means your teacher does not know your name until Grade 11. You could have been bunking since Grade 8 and Miss only notices you are missing when she hands out the matric dance forms. Forty-five people trying to manage over a thousand teenagers in a mining town, that is not a school, that is a hostage situation with a timetable. BUT, and this is a big but, a 95.6% matric pass rate coming out of Carletonville is genuinely hard to argue with. That is not a fluke, that is a school that is actually doing the work. The description is so dry it reads like a government invoice, "follows the NSC curriculum under the CAPS framework," yoh, who wrote that, the Department of Home Affairs? But the results speak louder than the brochure. Overall verdict: Built on shaky ground, running on a skeleton staff, describing itself like a tax return, but somehow producing results that would make a Sandton school cry into its swimming pool.