Glenly Private School (Klerksdorp)

Glenly Private School in Klerksdorp, hey. Klerksdorp. The city that the rest of South Africa genuinely forgot existed until someone from there corrects you on Facebook. You paid private school fees to end up in Klerksdorp, North West, which is basically the universe telling you something. Not sure what, but something. Now let us talk about these numbers. 473 kids. 23 teachers. That is a ratio of 20.6 to 1, which, broe, is not private school energy. That is "the sub is late and Mrs van der Merwe is covering two classes at once" energy. You are paying independent school money for a ratio that the local government school down the road would look at and say "shame, that is a lot of kids." For a private school that ratio should make you question everything, like genuinely everything. And listen, 473 learners at primary school level. That is not intimate and nurturing. That is chaotic. That is sports day with no shade, a broken tannoy, and a Grade 3 who has been lost since the egg and spoon race and nobody has noticed yet. You have got nearly 500 small humans, 23 adults trying to manage them, and someone in an office somewhere called it a private school experience. Overall verdict: Glenly is the school that wants to be a fancy sit-down restaurant but is running with a spur's worth of staff, still, at least you are not in a school with no roof, so there is that.