What kind of school is Joe Gqabi Senior Secondary School?
Joe Gqabi Senior Secondary School is a public secondary school in Aliwal North, within the Joe Gqabi education district of the Eastern Cape. EMIS records it as a medium-sized school with 658 enrolled learners and 18 educators, giving a learner-to-educator ratio of 37:1.
It is classified as Quintile 3 ā a government classification based on the surrounding community's socioeconomic profile, not a measure of school quality. It is designated as a no-fee school, so families do not pay tuition fees.
Among 376 Q3 Secondary schools in Eastern Cape, it has a learner-educator ratio close to the median for similar schools.
The school is at Joe Gqabi Township, Aliwal North, 9750.
What You Should Know
No tuition fees
As a Quintile 3 no-fee school, families do not pay school fees. The school receives higher per-learner funding from government.
Matric Results
Matric results are not yet available for this school. This may be because the school writes IEB or Cambridge exams (not included in DBE reporting), is newly registered, or had no matric candidates in recent years.
Learn about different exam bodies in South AfricaWhat is the learner-to-educator ratio at Joe Gqabi Senior Secondary School?
How many learners there are per educator, compared to schools in the same quintile and phase. The educator count includes teachers, heads of department, and principals ā so real class sizes are usually larger than this number suggests.
Fewer learners per educator than 34% of similar schools
(Q3 Secondary schools in Eastern Cape)
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Schools serving similar communities
Other public secondary schools in Eastern Cape with Quintile 3.
Grouped by quintile, phase and province. These schools face similar resource constraints to Joe Gqabi Senior Secondary School. This grouping is for browsing and is broader than the peer group used for the matric percentile above.
Fewer learners per educator than 23% of similar schools
Fewer learners per educator than 27% of similar schools
Fewer learners per educator than 80% of similar schools
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School data: DBE EMIS Q3 2025. Matric results: NSC School Performance Report 2025. Subject results: NSC School Subject Reports 2024 & 2025. Infrastructure: NEIMS/EFMS 2021 (historical). Peer comparisons are based on schools within the same quintile, phase, and province. The learner-educator ratio includes all staff classified as educators ā actual class sizes may differ. Learn about our methodology
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