Karibib Private School

Karibib Private School
Location
Karibib
Namibia
Information
Type Private
Opened 1907
School district Erongo Region
Principal Vincent Hockey
Grades Pre-Primary, Primary to 12
Color(s) Blue and Yellow
Website School Website

Karibib Private School (KPS) is a private school in Karibib in the Erongo Region of central Namibia. It offers a hostel that caters for its learners from kindergarten to grade 12.[1]

The school is divided into two phases, phase 1 and phase 2. Academically learners in phase 1 are only allowed to pass with 45% or more in their subjects and should not fail more than one subject. For the phase 2 learners to continue with grade 11, they need to have 30 points in their grade 10.[2]

There are currently 10 teachers and 106 pupils in the pre-primary level to grade 8.[3]

History

The first school in Karibib was opened in 1902 by a missionary. In 1907 Deutsche Schule Karibib (DSK, German: German School Karibib, also: Privatschule Karibib) was opened in town, first as a government school of Imperial Germany, and after World War I as private school. When competition from other German schools eroded its pupil base, the school closed down in 1986. The campus is currently leased to the similarly named but unrelated Karibib Private School which sees itself as continuing the legacy of DSK.[4]

Performance

Karibib Private School was in the top 20 of the best performing High Schools in Namibia in 2013, up from rank 91 in the 2012 school year.[5]

See also

References

  1. "KPS Hostel". Retrieved 2011.
  2. "Academic Standards". Retrieved 2011.
  3. "Education and Training". Erongo Regional Council(via AZAFRICA.com). Retrieved 2007.
  4. "Privatschule Karibib: Die Schule, die eine Stadt begründete" [Karibib Privatschule: the school that formed a town] (in German). Henckert Online (via Projekt Lilie). Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  5. Immanuel, Shinovene (16 January 2014). "Quality of education slides". The Namibian.

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