NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE SCHOOL PERFORMANCE REPORT SHAPING FREEDOM THROUGH EDUCATION CELEBRATING OR TAMBO 100 YEARS THE 2017 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE REPORT 1 THE 2017 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE Shaping Freedom SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE REPORT Through Education TABLE OF CONTENT FOREWORD 3 1. INTRODUCTION 5 4. SUMMARY OF SCHOOL PERFORMANCE 6 5. SCHOOLS THAT ACHIEVED A 100% PASS RATE FROM 2013 TO 2017 7 6. SCHOOLS THAT PERFORMED BELOW 40% OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD 14 7. Provincial pass rate in 2017 16 8. INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL RESULTS PER PROVINCE IN 2017 17 Eastern Cape 17 Free State 58 Gauteng 68 KwaZulu-Natal 107 Limpopo 155 Mpumalanga 205 North West 229 Northern Cape 247 Western Cape 253 2 THE 2017 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE Shaping Freedom SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE REPORT Through Education FOREWORD The great gains of the democratic era underscore an improving education system determined to ensure quality in basic education, enhance teaching and learning standards and carefully measure progress over time. The cornerstone of this determination has been an unwavering goal to benefit the children of South Africa with knowledge and skills that translate into economic freedom within a democratically transformed society, so that the intensive support provided to low under that they can respond to the modern challenges of the performing provinces in 2016 have borne fruit. This is Fourth Industrial Revolution. Hence, the Government a testament that Government’s pro-poor policies are of the Republic of South Africa regards the provision of working. We continue to see significant gains in the quality, basic education that is, free of discrimination, as margins of improvement among quintile 1 to 3 schools its apex priority. This is advanced by clearly articulated which points towards an average annual increase in milestones in the National Development Plan (NDP) black African high-level achievers since 2008. Many of Vision 2030: Our future – Make it work. There is a clear these learners come from historically disadvantaged mandate from the NDP for the education department to schools. Notwithstanding the systemic gains of the direct that the standards of education provision, delivery NSC, we remain concerned that in predominantly urban and performance of learners be monitored and evaluated provinces, the gains in our top-end schools are below annually, or at other specified intervals, with the object expectations. of assessing progress in compliance with the provisions In 2017, high quality systems and processes in provinces of the Constitution and with national education policy. In ensured that stipulated preconditions were stringently this regard, the outcome of the National Senior Certificate met by all schools and that candidate data was tracked (NSC) has since its introduction in 2008, been regarded and monitored throughout the year. By tracking as key indicator of the system’s progress. progress against the three indicators directly linked to I am honoured to release the 2017 National Senior the promotion of excellence and scarce skills in Grade Certificate (NSC) School Performance Report which 12 examinations in Action Plan to 2019: Towards the reflects the achievement of schools offering Grade 12 realization of Schooling 2030, I remain encouraged over a 3-year period. Six thousand, eight hundred and five by the continued increase in the number of Grade 12 (6805) centres participated in the 2017 NSC examination learners qualifying for Bachelor level passes each year and the majority of these examination centres are public and remain confident that these increases will make it schools. possible for the sector to achieve the target of 75% of youths obtaining an NSC from a school by 2029. The improved 2017 NSC result is a celebration of the concerted and collective efforts of the key educational I appreciate and acknowledge the hard work, sacrifice component of learner, teacher and system, working as and sheer effort made by our teachers, learners, parents, a coherent sector. It is highly welcomed, though not guardians, school managers, district and provincial unexpected, that a significant number of schools in officials and wider school communities who heeded our provinces within traditional, rural communities improved call to support the sector’s commitment to improve the their results. The 2017 results provide further evidence quality of teaching and learning and learner attainment. 3 THE 2017 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE Shaping Freedom SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE REPORT Through Education In 2017 there was increased investment in the sector to harness the participation of school communities in the strategic interventions that were driven by the 2017 NSLA that aimed to align the key national and provincial interventions, and to add value to teaching and learning in our schooling sector. As in 2016, targeted and focused interventions to improve learner performance in eleven (11) high enrolment subjects were implemented across all nine provinces in 2017. These were focused on underachieving schools, schools with more than 100 learners in high risk subjects, schools with novice Grade 12 teachers, and schools with high numbers of progressed learners. There were also targeted interventions for high achievers to enhance the quality of their performances in the final examinations. Provinces and districts intensified monitoring of the differentiated subject interventions throughout the year to ensure optimal participation, and quality of input over adequate timeframes, to enable accountability among all stakeholders responsible for operationalizing the 2017 NSLA. Consequently, four hundred and ninety seven (497) schools obtained a 100% pass rate, two thousand nine hundred and fifty nine (2959) schools obtained between 80—100% and 2083 achieved between 60 and 79.9%. However, the 597 schools that did not achieve the targets set in 2017 will be supported to identify the barriers to attaining these targets and to set new milestones in the academic year that lies ahead. MRS AM MOTSHEKGA, MP MINISTER OF BASIC EDUCATION 04 JANUARY 2018 4 THE 2017 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE Shaping Freedom SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE REPORT Through Education 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SCOPE OF The overall results of the 6805 schools that participated THE SCHOOL in the 2017 NSC examination in the country are packaged into a national report which allows school PERFORMANCE managers and all officials based either at the national, REPORT provincial and district levels, that are responsible for the effective management of schools to analyse the learner This report presents data on the performance of all performance data presented. The school level data can schools that wrote the 2017 NSC Examination, including be located within each of the 70 districts and represents public schools, special and independent schools. It also the number of candidates who wrote the examination and provides data on the overall performance of all these the number that obtained the NSC this year. Every school schools over a three-year period so that a school is able community is encouraged to engage actively with the to measure and track its performance over the last three data so that each is able to reflect on their performance years. in the 2017 NSC examination and evaluate it against 2017 marks the fourth year of a CAPS-aligned NSC previous years’ to gauge progress made and to consider Examination, which means that schools can compare enhancements that can be phased in to achieve concrete their historic performance in a stabilising curriculum and measurable improvements in the new academic and assessment policy framework. This will help them year. In addition, schools that are in the same quintile can to establish if they too have reached stability in terms of also compare their historic performance to that of other effective implementation of the intended curriculum. schools in the same quintile over the last three years to establish if the inputs made by the education system This report details the number of candidates that wrote have translated into better performance and a motivated the examination, the number of candidates that achieved school community. the NSC and the pass percentage in every school, over the last three years. It also provides a list of schools that This Schools Performance Report should be read obtained 100% and those that obtained below 40% over a together with the following three complementary reports period of five years respectively. on the 2017 National Senior Certificate published by the Department of Basic Education: a) The 2017 National Senior Certificate Examination Report; b) National Subject Report which provides the results of selected subjects, per individual school, and c) National Diagnostic Report which analyses learner-performance in the gateway subjects, and the 11 Home Languages and identifies areas of poor performance and recommends appropriate remedial measures in each of the subjects. Together, these four reports provide an overall evaluation of learner, subject, and schools’ performances in the 2017 NSC. 5 THE 2017 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE Shaping Freedom SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE REPORT Through Education 4. SUMMARY OF SCHOOL PERFORMANCE Total Exactly Exactly Provinces Number of 0 - 19.9% 20 -39.9% 40-59.9% 60-79.9% 80-100% 0% 100% schools Number 911 28 135 225 285 238 2 34 Eastern Cape % 3.1 14.8 24.7 31.3 26.1 0.2 3.7 Number 324 0 2 10 57 255 48 Free State % 0 0.6 3.1 17.6 78.7 0.0 14.8 Number 874 2 2 35 217 618 1 138 Gauteng % 0.2 0.2 4.0 24.8 70.7 0.1 15.8 Number 1754 42 153 336 565 658 5 109 KwaZulu-Natal % 2.4 8.7 19.2 32.2 37.5 0.3 6.2 Number 1396 35 164 383 434 380 1 36 Limpopo % 2.5 11.7 27.4 31.1 27.2 0.1 2.6 Number 551 0 18 88 203 242 18 Mpumalanga % 0.0 3.3 16.0 36.8 43.9 0.0 3.3 Number 411 1 6 40 139 225 30 North West % 0.2 1.5 9.7 33.8 54.7 0.0 7.3 Number 139 1 2 22 53 61 9 Northern Cape % 0.7 1.4 15.8 38.1 43.9 0.0 6.5 Number 445 0 6 27 130 282 75 Western cape % 0.0 1.3 6.1 29.2 63.4 0.0 16.9 Number 6805 109 488 1166 2083 2959 9 497 National % 1.6 7.2 17.1 30.6 43.5 0.1 7.3 6 THE 2017 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE Shaping Freedom SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE REPORT Through Education 5.