The matric class of 2023 achieved a pass rate of 85.4%. This is a 0.95% improvement over the 2022 achievement of 84.4%.
Most schools in the South improved their pass rates with Diversity High School the most improved school getting 73.3% from 63.6% in 2022.
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi alongside MEC for Education Matome Chiloane hosted the 2023 matric results announcement on January 19, at Microsoft Corporate Offices.
Chiloane said once again, that dedication, resilience and hard work in 2023 proved to be the elements of success for the matrics. While the strategies and priorities capture a bold vision of a future Gauteng education system, this can only be realised through the investment of the right resources for the right purpose.
“Our approach in Gauteng is multi-faceted and is directed to address the quality of learning through quality improvement strategies to improve the classroom performance of teachers and the active learning of children in classrooms across all schools in the province.
“At the same time, we are introducing interventions that compensate for poor family literacy levels and the impact of poverty in a large percentage of our communities in Gauteng.
“There is a recent and rapidly growing appetite for figuring out and accomplishing what is increasingly referred to as ‘whole system reform’, that is, how to improve all schools in a district, a region, a state and a province of a country.
“For a long time, there has been the realisation that better education is the key to societal and national productivity and personal and social well-being. Only recently we are beginning to see that interest turn into specific questions about how you actually go about whole system reform.
“What pathways, from what starting points, are going to get results in reasonably short time frames? How do they actually ‘raise the bar and close the gap’ for all learners?
“To ensure effective teaching and learning, the focus of the strategies in Gauteng are geared towards the learners and the classroom as a unit of change.
“For effective teaching and learning to take place, we have to ensure that classrooms are fully functional. We must continue to demand accountability for results, particularly in chronically failing schools.
“The purpose is not to punish the management, teachers and learners but to provide the right combination of incentives, support and resources that will accelerate the changes needed to improve the quality of education in those schools.
“The systemic approach, we adopted, is premised on the considered assumption that urgent relief to the system from the debilitating learner performance cited above will come from tackling macro, systemic aspects first before attention is paid to the micro aspects.
“This makes sense, particularly in the context where the majority of schools in the broader education system are dysfunctional,” he said.
This is how the local schools fared:
• Ithuba-Lethu Secondary – 100%
• Horizon International High – 100%
• St Martins – 100%
• Kenilworth Secondary – 97,7%
• Hoërskool President – 94,9%
• Mondeor High – 92,9%
• Glenvista High – 90,6%
• Jordao College – 90,5%
• The Hill High – 90,1%
• Elethu Themba – 88,2%
• Sir John Adamson High – 87,3%
• Forest High – 85,3%
• Hoërskool Die Fakkel – 83,8%
• Kibler Park Secondary – 72,0%
