Reddford House The Hills (Pretoria)

Reddford House The Hills. Even the name sounds like someone tried to name a school and a golf estate at the same time and just gave up halfway. "The Hills Extension 4, Pretoria." Extension 4. Not even the main Hills, bro. The overflow Hills. The Hills that the original Hills did not want to extend to but eventually had to because Pretoria keeps sprawling like a guy who falls asleep on the couch at a braai. 642 learners, 49 educators, ratio of 13:1. Okay that is actually not bad, ngl. Your teacher might actually know your name here, which is either a blessing or a nightmare depending on whether you finished your homework. They also have boarding, which means some parents drove past The Hills Extension 4, saw the fees, and said "you know what, just stay there, we will see you at prize-giving." No faith ethos, secular all the way. No chapel, no hymns, no guilt. Just pure Pretoria private school energy, which is its own religion honestly. You worship the braai, you tithe at the tuck shop, and load shedding is your advent calendar. Combined school, co-ed, the whole package. Kids from Grade R all the way to Matric sharing one campus in Extension 4 like one big family that the original Extension definitely did not invite. Overall verdict: A well-staffed, properly equipped private school doing solid work in the part of Pretoria that Pretoria itself is still finding on the map, and somehow pulling it off.