While the department identified 324 public schools that had an exceptional performance in the 2021 matric exams, its assessment report goes even further and lists the schools that have put in a consistently perfect performance over the last five years.Most of the schools are located in the country’s biggest economic centres in Gauteng , KwaZulu-Natal and Cape Town , with the Free State also featuring a large number of schools .
The North West has four schools in the perfect ranking, followed by the Eastern Cape with two, and Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape with one school each.Of all the schools that managed to maintain a perfect matric pass rate for five years, Phumanyova High in Zululand, KZN, had the highest number of matriculants in 2021, with all 350 learners who sat the exams passing.
This was followed by Hoërskool Waterkloof in Tshwane, Gauteng, with 316 learners, and Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool in the same region, with 249. The table below outlines the top performing school in each province, ranked by the number of matrics that passed the 2021 exams.