Blue Ridge Primary School (City Of Cape Town)

Blue Ridge Primary in the Northern Suburbs, okay so we already know the vibe. Not quite Constantia with the blazers and the wine farms, not quite a school where the tuck shop sells gatsby slices, just sitting there in the Northern Suburbs being perfectly average and absolutely fine with it. Co-ed public school, which means at least the kids get a real education in how to argue across a table, which is more than some R50,000-a-year schools can say. Now "Blue Ridge" is doing a lot of heavy lifting as a name for a school in the Northern Suburbs. Blue Ridge sounds like it should be somewhere dramatic, somewhere with a view, a mountain, a ridge, something blue. But bru, you are in the Northern Suburbs where the most dramatic thing on the horizon is a Checkers and some load shedding. The mountain is not even looking at you from there, she turned her back, she is facing Sea Point, she does not know you exist. Public school, co-ed, Northern Suburbs, no frills, jy weet hoe is dit. The teachers are probably doing their best on a budget held together with Pritt stick and a prayer to the WCED, and honestly that is more respectable than some fancy school charging your parents for a "holistic learning journey" that is just swimming lessons and a fruit tuck shop. Overall verdict: Blue Ridge Primary is the school version of a reliable Toyota Tazz, nothing flashy, nothing falling apart, gets you where you need to go, and your parents could actually afford the petrol.