Greenpoint Secondary School (East London)

Greenpoint Secondary in East London, Eastern Cape. Not Green Point in Cape Town where the stadium is, no no no. This is the OTHER Green Point. The one where load shedding hits different and nobody is walking to any waterfront after school. But respect where respect is due, bru, 93.6% matric pass rate? That is actually not bad for a school that sounds like it was named after a park that may or may not exist. Now let us talk about this ratio. 1110 learners and only 37 educators. That is 30 kids per teacher, which means your teacher is not teaching, your teacher is SURVIVING. Jy weet hoe is dit. The poor woman at the front is basically a traffic cop at a taxi rank during peak hour, just arms everywhere, screaming, nobody listening. You want help with your maths homework? Get in the queue, you are number 28. 1110 learners in one school is a LOT of people. That tuck shop queue must stretch to the Eastern Cape border and back. Sports day probably takes three days just to finish the roll call. If you were shy and hoping to fly under the radar, good luck, there are literally over a thousand witnesses to every embarrassing thing you ever did in those corridors. Overall verdict: Greenpoint Secondary is basically a functioning small town with a 93.6% pass rate, which is genuinely impressive when your teacher is outnumbered 30 to one and East London is doing its thing outside.