Fochville Secondary School No 2 (Merafong)

Fochville Secondary School No 2. Already starting from a position of confidence hey, because someone looked at Fochville and said "one school is not enough, we need a sequel." And just like most sequels, No 2 is fine, it does the job, but nobody is calling it better than the original. Sixteen educators for 445 kids. Sixteen. That ratio is 27.8 to 1, which means your teacher is basically a taxi driver, fully loaded, one more learner and someone is sitting on the gearbox. You know how it is when the teacher goes to make photocopies and just never comes back? At this school that is not negligence, that is survival. That teacher is outside hiding behind the storeroom door counting to ten trying to remember why they chose this profession. Now the 83.3% matric pass rate is actually not bad at all, genuinely. For a no-fee school in Fochville carrying nearly 28 kids per teacher, that is some real work getting done. The government is not throwing money at this place, load shedding is probably eating the computer lab twice a week, and yet more than eight out of ten kids are walking out with a matric certificate. That deserves respect. Overall verdict: Fochville No 2 is the underdog sequel nobody expected to be decent, running on government grants and pure stubbornness, and honestly it is pulling it off.