Everest Academy (Pretoria)

Everest Academy. Named after the tallest mountain in the world. Forty three kids. Three teachers. Bru, this is not Everest, this is a speed bump. You named your school after something that takes months to climb and you have fewer learners than a Spur birthday party on a Tuesday. Three teachers for forty three kids, which sounds fine until you realise one of them is probably also the principal, the IT department, the tuck shop lady, and the person who fixes the printer. That fourteen to one ratio means your teacher knows exactly who ate whose lunch, who has not done their homework since March, and which kid cries every time they lose at Tag. There is no hiding here. You cannot even blame load shedding for not finishing your project because your teacher watched you do nothing the whole day in real time. And then the school wrote its own description like it was submitting a tender. "Currently serves 43 learners supported by a teaching staff of 3 educators." Supported. Bru, three people are not supporting forty three kids, three people are surviving forty three kids. There is a difference. The whole school could fit in one minibus taxi with room left for the bags and someone's gogga. Overall verdict: Everest Academy probably gives your child more attention than any school in Pretoria, which is either beautiful or slightly intense depending on what your kid got up to last Wednesday.