VIOLENT protests, teacher shortages, poor attitudes and significant numbers of progressed pupils who had been pushed into Grade 12 last year are among the factors blamed for a massive drop in the 2015 matric pass rates in Port Elizabeth’s northern areas.
This emerged as the results for Nelson Mandela Bay schools were released yesterday, showing drastic pass rate declines at northern areas schools compared with the 2014 results.
Not one school in the area achieved a 100% pass rate. In July, the Northern Areas Education Forum (NAEF) – which represented 56 schools affected by issues such as teacher shortages, the non-payment of teachers and over-crowded classrooms – held a peaceful protest which quickly escalated into three days of violence.
The 2015 results show that Chatty High School dived 29.6 percentage points to a shocking 26% compared with 2014. Gelvandale High School’s pass rate dropped 20.5 percentage points to 52.1%, Sanctor High fell 22.2 percentage points to 65%, and Booysen Park High declined 19.1 percentage points to 60.7%.
Chapman High School dropped 14.4 percentage points to 81.8%, while Westville Senior Secondary dropped 11.4 percentage points to 78.9%. Bethelsdorp Comprehensive School dropped only slightly by 1.2 percentage points to 76.6%.
St Thomas High School in Gelvandale and Bertram Secondary School in Bloemendal were among only a few northern areas schools to manage slight increases this year, with the schools rising by 0.4 percentage points to 89.2% and 1.6 percentage points to 68.9%, respectively.
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