{"id":51778,"date":"2014-01-13T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/51778\/private-schools-come-out-on-top\/"},"modified":"2014-01-13T10:44:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T08:44:04","slug":"private-schools-come-out-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/01\/13\/private-schools-come-out-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Private schools come out on top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city&#8217;s two private schools recorded excellent results in the IEB 2013 matric examinations.<\/p>\n<p>St Catherine&#8217;s School achieved a 100 per cent pass rate, with a 76 per cent degree pass.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>There were 37 matric pupils and, between them, they achieved 39 distinctions.<\/p>\n<p>The top pupil was Brandon Higgins, with four distinctions.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Assumption Convent School also recorded a 100 per cent pass rate, with a 94 per cent university exemption.<\/p>\n<p>The school had 45 matric students.<\/p>\n<p>The top student was Kirsten Whitlock, who achieved nine distinctions.<\/p>\n<p>She was placed on the IEB outstanding achievement list and in the top one per cent for Afrikaans, English, geography, life sciences and life orientation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='3a024235bd20e2fdec4b9e280846592f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private schools in the city achieve in the IEB matric examinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":51793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8516],"tags":[2211,979,2590,1351,1415,1050,1049],"class_list":["post-51778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines","category-local-school-news","tag-assumption-convent-school","tag-germiston","tag-ieb-matric-examinations","tag-malvern-east","tag-parkhill-gardens","tag-school","tag-st-catherines-school"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Schools"},"tag_labels":["Assumption Convent School","germiston","ieb matric examinations","Malvern East","parkhill gardens","school","St Catherine's School"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}