Lyttelton Manor High School (Centurion)

Lyttelton Manor High School. The name sounds like a British estate where someone in a waistcoat serves you tea, but bru, it is a public school in Centurion with nearly 1500 kids crammed in there. Centurion, the place that cannot decide if it is Pretoria or Johannesburg, just sitting there in the middle like it is waiting for a taxi that is never coming. The school has 64 teachers for 1459 learners, which means your ratio is 22.8 to 1, so if you had a problem with a teacher you basically had to take a number and sit down. Now the description they wrote for themselves is something else. "Lyttelton Manor High School is a public co-educational high school located in Centurion, Gauteng." That is it. That is the whole personality. They just described what a school is. No vision, no values, no "we shape tomorrow's leaders," nothing. Just the facts, like a home affairs form. The most exciting thing in the whole description is that they mention they do not have boarding facilities, which, fair enough, nobody is rushing to sleep in Centurion voluntarily. But listen, a 96.1% matric pass rate is genuinely impressive and you cannot take that away from them. Nearly 1500 kids, one teacher for basically 23 of you, and they still pulled that off. Respect where it is due. Overall verdict: The name is fancier than the vibe, but the results are fancier than both.