NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 1744

DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 27/07/2012
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 19/2012)

Mrs A T Lovemore (DA) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:

(1) How many learners were enrolled in each grade from Grade 1 to Grade 12 in ordinary public schools in each province in the (a) 2011 and (b) 2012 academic years;

(2) how many learners were repeating the grade in (i) 2011 and (ii) are repeating the grade in the 2012 academic years;

(3)what was the failure rate, expressed as a (a) number of learners and (b) percentage of the total number of learners (i) in each province for each grade from Grade 1 to Grade 12 in the (aa) 2010 and (bb) 2011 academic years?             NW2135E

Response

(1)Table 1: Number of learners in public ordinary schools, by grade and province, in 2011 and 2012

(2) Table 2: Number of learners repeating a grade, by grade, in 2010 and 2011

(3) Table 3: Repetition rate, by grade, in 2010 and 2011

Note: EMIS collects information only on repeaters per grade, therefore information is provided on grade repetition rate. It is calculated by dividing the number of repeaters in a given grade in current school year by the number of pupils from the same cohort enrolled in the same grade in the previous school year.

Issued by Parliament, August 22 2012

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