The question in itself is guaranteed to generate a plethora of opinions and not a few who will almost entirely back their alma mata regardless of the current results.
However in order to provide some answer to this question SA School Sports embarked on an exercise to try and establish the leading sporting school in the country.
Naturally more than one sporting code needs to be recognised, and more than one season has to be considered.
By combining the rankings for the major sports from the past four years SA School Sports have come up with the “Top Sporting School Rankings”.
The sports included were Rugby, Cricket, Hockey and Water Polo which are played by the majority of schools.
Schools that scored highly invariably were those that have been able to compete at a consistently high level in all the sport codes for an extended period of time.
They would like to stress that SA School Sports has no allegiance to any school and the results were based entirely on the various rankings for the above mentioned codes over the past four years.
Take a look at the Top 65 Top Sports School Rankings 2012-2015!
RANK TEAM AVERAGE
1 GREY HIGH SCHOOL 39.015
2 GREY COLLEGE 38.775
3 WYNBERG BOYS HIGH 37.891
4 SELBORNE COLLEGE 37.005
5 GLENWOOD 36.171
6 RONDEBOSCH BOYS HIGH 33.725
7 WESTVILLE BOYS HIGH 32.701
8 AFFIES 32.673
9 PAUL ROOS GYM 30.653
10 KES 30.204
11 BISHOPS 29.853
12 MICHAELHOUSE 29.651
13 PRETORIA BOYS HIGH 29.445
14 PAARL BOY’S HIGH 29.331
15 MARITIZBURG COLLEGE 29.134
16 CLIFTON 28.999
17 SACS 28.603
18 KEARSNEY COLLEGE 28.487
19 JEPPE BOYS HIGH 27.491
20 ST ANDREWS COLLEGE 27.061
21 WATERKLOOF 26.874
22 PEARSON HIGH SCHOOL 26.520
23 ST JOHNS COLLEGE 26.352
24 HILTON COLLEGE 25.682
25 ST STITHIANS 25.656
26 MENLOPARK 24.632
27 HUDSON PARK 22.765
28 ST BENEDICTS 21.736
29 ST ALBANS COLLEGE 20.145
30 PAARL GIM 19.969
31 ST DAVIDS INANDA 18.991
32 KINGSWOOD COLLEGE 17.953
33 EG JANSEN 17.870
34 SOMERSET COLLEGE 17.746
35 DHS 17.724
36 GARSFONTEIN 17.204
37 QUEENS COLLEGE 16.987
38 DALE COLLEGE 16.903
39 ST ANDREWS SCHOOL 16.548
40 NORTHWOOD 13.536
41 UPLANDS COLLEGE 13.442
42 WOODRIDGE COLLEGE 13.021
43 FRAMESBY 12.573
44 MONUMENT 12.428
45 OUTENIQUA 11.941
46 HTS MIDDELBURG 11.774
47 NELSPRUIT 11.700
48 STIRLING 11.670
49 CENTURION 11.428
50 BOLAND LANDBOU 11.422
51 PARKTOWN 10.003
52 ST CHARLES COLLEGE 9.344
53 MUIR COLLEGE 8.129
54 POTCH VOLKIES 7.834
55 REDDAM CONSTANTIA 6.700
56 TRANSVALIA 6.163
57 VOORTREKKER BETHLEHEM 6.073
58 OAKDALE 6.029
59 KEMPTON PARK 5.765
60 TRINITYHOUSE 5.475
61 JIM FOUCHE 5.413
62 NOORDHEUWEL 5.324
63 CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL 5.281
64 FLORIDA 5.047
65 GRAEME COLLEGE 4.795
Source: SA Schools sport Magazine