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The Grassland Secondary School management team, with principal Steven Mphanya (middle, front), celebrate another feat: achieving a 97,6% pass rate in the 2024 matric examination.
PHOTO: TEBOHO SETENA
Matrics rise against odds TEBOHO SETENA The cohort of Gr. 12 learners at the Grassland Secondary School in Bloemfontein has beaten the odds, attaining a 97,6% pass rate in the final examination of 2024. The school had 265 learners writing the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations – the second matric cohort since the school’s establishment. The first cohort of 232 learners
attained an 82,3% pass rate in 2023. The school is among the sterling performers in the province, which surpassed the 90% pass rate mark in the matric examination. The school’s outstanding performance contributed to the Free State retaining first place nationally, achieving 91,0%. The matric learners of Grassland were part of the 44 545 candidates combined (37 583 full-time and 6 962 part-time) who wrote their final matric examinations. The
previous year (2023) the province attained 89,0%, and retained the top spot. Before the examinations, Free State Premier Maqueen LetsohaMathae volunteered to adopt at least five learners at Grassland Secondary during the matric examination, given their severe poverty. She had been struck by the reality of the plight of several learners trapped in poverty and their struggle to make ends meet.
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She then committed to lending a helping hand to learners identified as being in a dire situation. Letsoha-Mathae made the undertaking during a special visit the school to encourage Gr. 12 learners, on the day they started writing the final examination papers on 21 October. The learners’ situations were different. Some of them and their parents could not afford to pay the amount of money required for the matric exam camp, because they
are unemployed; others entirely depend on their grandparents’ social grant for survival. Letsoha-Mathae had set the target of a 90% pass rate, and a 50% bachelor-level pass rate. Meanwhile, the Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube, announced the Fezile Dabi education district was the secondbest performer nationally, with 93,5% behind the Johannesburg West education district as the first, with a pass rate of 97%.
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