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Motherwell NU9 is not where the country expected to find its best mathematicians. Here is how it happened.
“Soqhayisa” — we shall brag. And we have earned it.
A no-fee public school in Motherwell, Gqeberha, that has spent the last decade beating the country's best. Ranked #1 in the nation for Mathematics and #1 in the Eastern Cape for Physical Science with the 2024 matric class.
Tap any year to see what that matric class actually did. These are National Senior Certificate results as reported by the Eastern Cape Department of Education and the national press.
Percentage of the matric class that passed the NSC
The 2024 matric class placed first in the country for Mathematics — ahead of every private and historically advantaged school in South Africa.
Top of the province in Physical Science, the subject that opens engineering, medicine and actuarial science.
Placed 16th out of roughly 6 500 schools writing the NSC nationally — from a no-fee township school in Motherwell.
A full CAPS senior-phase offering with real strength in the gateway subjects. Filter by stream to see where Soqhayisa learners have taken distinctions.
Motherwell NU9 is not where the country expected to find its best mathematicians. Here is how it happened.
Staff credit the results to five things they do relentlessly, every single year. Open each one.
Learners and educators whose names are attached to the school's best years.
Recent investment has gone straight into the things that move marks.
A quick taste of the Maths, Physical Science and Accounting that put this school top of the country. No pressure.
Time left before the next National Senior Certificate final examinations begin. Every camp, every extra class, counts down with it.
Soqhayisa is a public, no-fee, Quintile 3 school serving Motherwell and the wider Nelson Mandela Bay metro. Reach the office directly, or send an enquiry below.