Curro Century City (City Of Cape Town)

Curro Century City. Situated in Century City, which is basically Cape Town's way of pretending it has a Manhattan, except instead of skyscrapers you get a Canal Walk Woolworths and a Spur. The school costs R113,430 for Grade 12, which is not a school fee, that is a ransom note. For that kind of money the tuck shop better be serving sushi and the WiFi better survive load shedding, a Cape South Easter, and a toyi-toyi simultaneously. 892 learners, 65 educators, 13.7 to 1 ratio. Okay fine, that part is actually not bad. Your teacher probably knows your name, which is more than most government schools in the Northern Suburbs can say, no offence to the WCED who is doing their best, bless. But Curro wrote their own description and the most exciting thing they could come up with was "fee-paying day school with no boarding facilities." Broe. You paid R113k and the flex is that the kids get to go home at the end of the day. That is the selling point. That they leave. IEB curriculum, co-ed, Northern Suburbs, Canal Walk on your doorstep. It is basically a mall school. Your matric dance venue is probably just the food court after hours with the Woolworths food smell still hanging in the air. Overall verdict: Curro Century City is what happens when a shopping centre decides to raise your children, and honestly, for R113k a year, those children are probably turning out fine.