This school provides specialist education for learners with special educational needs.
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Ginsberg, Buffalo City, Eastern Cape
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- Public special needs
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- Fee-paying
Source: DBE EMIS Q3 2025 · NSC School Performance Report 2025 · Processed 8 Aug 2026
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What kind of school is St Patrick's Special School?
St Patrick's Special School is a public special needs school in Ginsberg, within the Buffalo City education district of the Eastern Cape. EMIS records it as a small school with 167 enrolled learners and 15 educators, giving a learner-to-educator ratio of 11:1.
The school falls within the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality local municipality. Among 44 Special Needs schools in Eastern Cape, it has a learner-educator ratio close to the median for similar schools.
The school is at No 3 Stand Street, Ginsberg, King Williams Town, 5600, and can be reached on 068 529 9823.
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What is the learner-to-educator ratio at St Patrick's Special 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, so real class sizes are usually larger than this number suggests.
Fewer learners per educator than 28% of similar schools
(Special Needs schools in Eastern Cape)
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This school has 167 enrolled learners.
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What other schools are near St Patrick's Special School?
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Fewer learners per educator than 19% of similar schools
Fewer learners per educator than 53% of similar schools
Fewer learners per educator than 39% of similar schools
Fewer learners per educator than 26% of similar schools
Fewer learners per educator than 91% of similar schools
Schools serving similar communities
Other public special needs schools in Eastern Cape with no quintile on record.
Grouped by quintile, phase and province. These schools face similar resource constraints to St Patrick's Special School. This grouping is for browsing and is broader than the peer group used for the matric percentile above.
Fewer learners per educator than 49% of similar schools
Among the lowest learner-educator ratios of 44 similar schools
Fewer learners per educator than 77% 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). Learner-educator comparisons group schools by quintile, phase and province; matric comparisons group by sector and province, plus quintile for public schools. The learner-educator ratio includes all staff classified as educators, so actual class sizes may differ. Learn about our methodology
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