Generation Somerset West (City Of Cape Town)

Bru, "a unique blend of tradition and innovation" is exactly what someone says when they cannot decide what kind of school they want to be. Montessori, IEB, AND Cambridge? Pick a lane, my friend. That is not a curriculum, that is a braai where someone brought gatsby, sushi, and pap, and now nobody knows what is happening. The school basically looked at every expensive education system it could find and said yes please, all of it, and then sent parents a bill for R105,000 a year for Grade 7. Grade SEVEN. Your child is learning long division and you are paying more than some people's annual salary. 307 kids and 30 teachers, so the ratio is about 10 to 1, which sounds lovely until you remember you are paying R101,000 for Grade 12 and asking yourself why the maths teacher cannot just come to your house at that price. This is Somerset West, not Constantia, so the Helderberg wind is already hitting different, and you are still writing cheques like you are at a school in Bishopscourt. The Christian ethos is doing a lot of heavy lifting here because only faith can explain looking at that fee structure and saying the Lord will provide. Overall verdict: Generation Schools Somerset West is what happens when a private school has an identity crisis but charges full confidence prices, and honestly, with that teacher ratio, your kid probably does get seen, so fair enough.