The overall results of the 6805 schools that participated in the 2017 NSC examination in the country are packaged into a national report which allows school managers and all officials based either at the national, provincial and district levels, that are responsible for the effective management of schools to analyse the learner performance data presented.

The school level data can be located within each of the 70 districts and represents the number of candidates who wrote the examination and the number that obtained the NSC this year. Every school community is encouraged to engage actively with the data so that each is able to reflect on their performance in the 2017 NSC examination and evaluate it against previous years’ to gauge progress made and to consider enhancements that can be phased in to achieve concrete and measurable improvements in the new academic year.

In addition, schools that are in the same quintile can also compare their historic performance to that of other schools in the same quintile over the last three years to establish if the inputs made by the education system have translated into better performance and a motivated school community.

Report by the Department of Basic Education