Lichtenburg English Secondary (Lichtenburg)

Lichtenburg English Secondary, sitting in Kieserville like it's trying to hide. And honestly, with 29 teachers running after 834 teenagers, maybe hiding is the smartest thing anyone there has ever done. That is a 28.8 to 1 ratio, which means your teacher is not teaching a class, they are managing a taxi rank. Full. Standing room only. Someone is definitely hanging out the door. And bra, the school description they wrote about themselves is genuinely the most nothing thing ever committed to paper. "It follows the NSC/CAPS curriculum." Wow. Revolutionary. So does every other school in South Africa. That is like introducing yourself at a braai by saying "I eat food and breathe air." They could not find one interesting thing to say, so they just listed the furniture. The 82.8% matric pass rate is actually decent, which is impressive considering each teacher is basically raising a small village of kids alone. Fair play to those 29 educators, they are built different. Lichtenburg is not exactly the flashiest address on the map, no mountain view, no Southern Suburbs vibes, just North West doing North West things, and this school is out there genuinely grinding. Overall verdict: Lichtenburg English Secondary is understaffed, undersells itself, and sounds like it was described by someone filling in a government form at 4pm on a Friday, but somehow the kids are passing matric anyway, so something is working out there in Kieserville.