{"id":78789,"date":"2015-01-20T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/78789\/schools-pass-rate-climbs-steadily\/"},"modified":"2015-01-19T12:57:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T10:57:21","slug":"schools-pass-rate-climbs-steadily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/20\/schools-pass-rate-climbs-steadily\/","title":{"rendered":"School&#8217;s pass rate climbs steadily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sizwe Secondary School in Elandsfontein Rail, Germiston, was thrilled to discover they had achieved a 95 per cent pass rate in the 2014 National Senior Certificate examinations.<\/p>\n<p>The school had a total of 112 matric pupils sit for the final examinations.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Between them, the pupils achieved 11 distinctions, with 31 per cent passing with a degree pass and 46 per cent with a diploma pass.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s top student was Happy Mathibe with a modest two distinctions.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Deputy Principal Annet Wasserman spoke to the GCN about the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be happier with this year\u2019s results,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur pass rate has climbed steadily from 2012 when it was 53 per cent, and 2013 when it climbed to 84 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to the new year.\u201d<\/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='9e169ba316c5f1147378fd2ac4996969'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sizwe Secondary School had a pleasant surprise with matric results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":78851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8516],"tags":[977,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,6210,1095,1050,1074,6330],"class_list":["post-78789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines","category-local-school-news","tag-children","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-national-senior-certificate","tag-pupils","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-sizwe-secondary-school"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Schools"},"tag_labels":["children","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","National Senior Certificate","pupils","school","schools","Sizwe Secondary School"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78789","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=78789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}