Doxa Deo Edendale School (Cullinan)

Doxa Deo Edendale in Cullinan, where the most famous thing to ever come out of the ground was a diamond, and now they want you to believe they are doing the same with your child's education. Nearly a thousand kids, 49 teachers, that is a 20 to 1 ratio, which means your educator is basically doing a taxi rank headcount every morning before they can even start the lesson. "Wag, wag, een, twee, drie..." Sir is not teaching, Sir is surviving. And the description, listen to this, they took four sentences to say absolutely nothing except that they charge fees and do not have boarding. Bra, that is the most expensive way to say "bring your own lunch and go home afterwards." IEB curriculum in Cullinan though, which means the kids are writing papers that cost more than the Uber from Cullinan to Pretoria, and trust me that Uber is not cheap either. But credit where it is due, 98.6% matric pass rate is no joke. That is not a school, that is a machine. You put a child in one end and a matric certificate comes out the other, almost guaranteed. Cullinan might not have the vibe of Sandton or the mountain views of Cape Town, but those results hit harder than a koppie on a clear Highveld morning. Overall verdict: Doxa Deo Edendale is a taxi with no aircon and forty people inside, but somehow it drops everyone off exactly where they need to be.