Diocesan School for Girls

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Diocesan School for Girls
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Location
Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Information
Locale Rural
Headmaster Bruce Probyn
Exam board IEB
Students 345 girls
Type Private, Boarding
Grades 4 - 12
Established 1874
Fees R 70 635 p.a. (boarding)
Homepage www.dsgschool.com

The Diocesan School for Girls or DSG is a private boarding school for girls situated in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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[edit] History

DSG is an Anglican school that was founded in 1874 by Bishop Nathaniel Merriman. The school is located in Westhill, just outside Grahamstown and is adjacent to St. Andrew's College and Rhodes University. Formerly, the girls were allowed little or no contact at all with their brother school, St. Andrew's College. This was changed in the early eighties as the pupils of both schools found themselves being integrated on an educational level.

[edit] A Family of Schools

DSG is an autonomous entity, however, it shares close ties with its brother schools in Grahamstown: St. Andrew's College, a high school for boys and St. Andrew's Preparatory School, a co-educational primary school.

Most girls enter the school in grade 4, coming from St. Andrew's Preparatory School. There are about 110 girls from grade 4 to grade 7 (the primary school phase) and 240 from grade 8 to grade 12 (the high school phase.) From grade 10 all the academic classes are shared with St. Andrew's College and are thus co-instructional.

A music school and Design and Technology Center are shared with St. Andrew's College.

[edit] Academics

It is one of the top schools writing the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) exams.

IEB Results 2005 2005
Number of candidates 53 60
Number of failures 0 0
University endorsement (%) 98 98
A aggregates (%) 28 33
A-B-C aggregates (%) 83 92
Subject distinctions 61 89
Number in top 50 0 0

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