Cullinan Secondary School (Cullinan)

Cullinan Secondary School, hey. Named after the same town where they found the biggest diamond in the world, and yet somehow the school could not mine even a 90% matric pass rate out of 724 learners. The Cullinan Diamond is sitting in the British Crown Jewels right now and your school is sitting at 87.5%. The British literally took the diamond AND the pass rate, shame. Thirty one teachers for 724 kids, that is a 23 to 1 ratio. You know what that means, right? Your teacher did not know your name until Grade 11. You were just "the one in the back" for three years. Load shedding hits and suddenly it is 31 teachers squinting at registers they cannot read, and 724 learners absolutely vanishing into the dark. Half the school could bunk and no one would notice until the next attendance sheet. Look, 87.5% is not terrible, we must be honest. Most schools in the area would take that and frame it. And being in Cullinan means you are not dealing with Joburg traffic or Pretoria attitudes, you are out there in the fresh air with the mine dumps and the history. There is something genuinely solid about a school that keeps producing decent results in a small town where the biggest tourist attraction is a hole in the ground. Overall verdict: A school built in a town famous for a diamond that ended up overseas, which honestly explains a lot about where the top matric students probably went.