Lewisham Primary School (Krugersdorp)

Lewisham Primary School in Krugersdorp, pulling up with 1369 learners and 43 teachers like that is somehow a flex. Bra, that is a 31.8 to 1 ratio. That teacher is not teaching a class, that teacher is addressing a small nation. By the time she gets to the back row to check your work, you have already grown a beard and started a SMMEs. One teacher, thirty-two kids, and load shedding hitting in the middle of a maths lesson. Eish. And Krugersdorp, hey. Not exactly the school the Northern Suburbs moms are fighting each other at orientation for. No shade to the West Rand, jy weet hoe is dit, but Krugersdorp Primary School was already right there and somehow Lewisham still said "no no, we are doing this." With over thirteen hundred kids running around the place, finding your friend at break time is basically a full orienteering exercise. Sports day must look like a Clicks queue on pension day. The school is public, co-ed, primary phase, which basically means it is doing the Lord's work with the budget of a tuck shop and the staffing of a skeleton crew. Every single teacher in that school deserves a Nando's card, a Cape Town holiday, and a very long sit-down. Overall verdict: Lewisham is basically the Checkers of primary schools, not glamorous, definitely understaffed, but somehow feeding the whole neighbourhood and keeping things moving.