Students
The school has approximately 900 pupils in 5 grades ranging from ages 13 to 18. There are roughly equal numbers of girls and boys in classes kept ideally below 30 learners.
A Westerford Matric pupil, Wiebke Louise Toussaint, was placed 12th in the Senior Certificate Examination results for 2005. The school also received a book voucher award in the Senior Certificate Awards for 2005 for achieving excellent academic results. The school was placed in the top 10 schools in the Western Cape with a 100% pass rate, 47% distinction and 96% matriculation endorsement rate. In July 2006 two Westerfordians were finalists in the national English Olympiad - Anique Greyling was placed 8th and Joanna Mostert achieved the top position in the country.In the final results in 2006 the school was once again in the top 10 with a 100% pass rate, 46% distinction and 98% endorsement rate. In 2007 Stefan Conradie was ranked 14th in the province and Birte Toussaint 10th. Again the pass rate was 100%, the distinction rate 43% and endorsement rate 97%. In 2008, in the new NSC, Saxony Moolman was ranked 16th, Tanya Scott 9th and Anique Kruger was announced as the top achiever in the Province.
Every year the school holds a celebration that honours pupils with outstanding achievements, held in October, usually in the week of Valedictory.
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Famous quotes containing the word students:
“I know that I will always be expected to have extra insight into black texts—especially texts by black women. A working-class Jewish woman from Brooklyn could become an expert on Shakespeare or Baudelaire, my students seemed to believe, if she mastered the language, the texts, and the critical literature. But they would not grant that a middle-class white man could ever be a trusted authority on Toni Morrison.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American scholar and educator. Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B2 (July 27, 1994)
“It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they’re killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We’d not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.”
—Spike Lee (b. 1956)