It was another year in which Catholic schools outperformed the national average. In the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams, written by public state schools, Catholic schools recorded an 84,1% pass rate — an improvement over the past two years—against the national average of 74,6%.
Private Catholic schools, writing the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) papers, attained a 99% pass rate, 0,2% higher than the national average.
The combined pass rate for Catholic schools, most of which are public schools on private (Church-owned) property was 86,8%.
A combined total of 52,2% of Catholic school matric candidates achieved a university pass (or matric exemption). Here Catholic schools outperformed both state and private schools significantly.
In Catholic public schools, 43,1% attained university entrance, against the national average of 28%.
In Catholic private schools, the figure was 92,7% (up by 2,7%), against the national IEB exam average of 88,5%.
Catholic public schools recorded 2711 (6,8%) distinctions — marks above 80% — against the national figure of 145385 (3,7%).
In private schools, the average was slightly lower than the national average: 22,5% against 23,4%.
Catholic schools occupied two of the Top 3 places of best-performing schools nationally in a ranking published in the Johannesburg daily The Star: Inkamana Benedictine School in Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal came second; Springfield Dominican Convent in Cape Town came third. Herschel Girls’ High in Cape Town topped the list.
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