Dawnview High School (Germiston)

Dawnview High School in Germiston, where the name sounds like a lifestyle estate in Fourways but the reality is it's a public school with 36 teachers trying to manage 908 kids. That's 25 learners per teacher, which means your educator is basically a traffic cop at a taxi rank, just waving people through and hoping nobody gets hurt. "Sir can you explain question 3?" Sir is already on question 47, keep up. Now let's talk about that school description. They wrote it themselves and the most exciting thing they could say was "it follows the CAPS curriculum and has no boarding facilities." No boarding facilities! Incredible flex. Thanks for letting us know the kids go home at the end of the day, very reassuring. The description reads like someone filled in a government form and accidentally hit submit as the school's official bio. But listen, 90.4% matric pass rate is actually not bad at all. With one teacher basically raising 25 kids at a time in Germiston, getting nine out of ten across the finish line takes some serious hustle. That is not nothing. The staff are clearly working hard even if the school's PR department needs to be sent back to Grade 10 English. Overall verdict: Dawnview is the friend who never talks themselves up but always quietly passes while everyone else is panicking, respect where it is due, but please hire someone to rewrite that description before the next open day.