Top marks at African School for Excellence

AFRICAN School for Excellence (ASE) Grade 8 pupils, who wrote the Grade 9 Annual National Assessments in English home language (HL) and maths, outperformed Grade 9 pupils.

Their maths performance was 35 percent higher than the national average and with English HL, the school’s performance was 16 percent higher than the national average. Grade 8 ASE pupils began the year with an 18 percent average in maths and that improved to a 49 percent in nine months.

Grade 8 ASE English HL pupils went from a 38 percent average to 59 percent. executive of ASE, and they cofounded the school.

The plan was to provide children in townships with an affordable education that would enable them to enrol and succeed at universities like Wits and Harvard.

“Most people would consider something like that impossible,” said Kloppenberg.