2022 Performance Indicators

2022 National statistics in South Africa: a matric pass rate of 80,1% and a Bachelor’s pass of 38,4% . In comparison, Christel House SA’s matric pass rate is 19,9% higher than the national average and our Bachelor pass is more than double the national average.

Grade 12 pass rate

Overall Grade 12 pass rate since inception

Grade 12

Bachelor’s pass rate

Grade 12

Academic subject distinctions

Alumni not in employment, education or training (NEET)

Student attendance rate

Grade RR–12 year-to-year retention rate

Our talented drama group presented the Merchant of Venice with an African twist at this year’s Shakespeare Schools Festival, Africa’s largest annual Shakespeare youth drama festival. The festival was held at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town. Over 557 schools, over 10 000 youth and 693 educators have participated in the event to date, and almost 26 000 people attended this year. Our parents volunteered to design and sew the various costumes for the play and were proud to

Aliziwe M., a Grade 11 student at Christel House

SA, proudly represented South Africa at the Commonwealth Fencing Championships held in London in August. She did the country proud by finishing 5th in her category. Christel House has a long-standing history of producing top-quality fencers for South Africa. Randall Daniels, our Engineering Graphics and Design (EGD) and Technology teacher, started the fencing team in 2006 and to date, we have produced 15 national fencers.

In August, we proudly hosted the Provincial World Robot Olympiad (WRO) with 227 students and 89 teams participating from around the province. Three of our teams qualified for the national competition in Johannesburg in November, with our Junior School team winning bronze in their category. In addition, the WRO Western Cape committee also hosted a special robotics workshop at our school to introduce students from under-resourced areas to the world of robotics and coding.

See the following video covering the provincial event: https://bit.ly/3kKo9xI

This year, 19 of our parents took part in our Family Food Garden project, in partnership with Greenpop, Urban Harvest and Naked Insure. The aim of the project is to address food inaccessibility and financial insecurity by equipping individuals with the skills to sustainably grow their own food at home. Parents were supplied with a family garden pod to grow their own vegetables at home and received structured support and training over a full 12-month period. The programme has been a resounding success with many of our parents boasting flourishing vegetable gardens through which they feed their families.