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St Andrew's College
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Location
Map
Grahamstown
,
Eastern Cape

South Africa
Information
TypePrivate, Boarding
MottoNec Aspera Terrent
Established1855
HeadmasterDavid Wylde (Oxon)
Exam boardIEB
Grades8 - 12
Number of students440 boys
Color(s)Blue and white
FeesR 102 700 p.a. (Boarding)
R 45670 p.a. (Day Scholars)
Websitewww.sacschool.com

St. Andrew's College is a private senior school for boys located in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It offers boarding and day options for its pupils.

History

Founded in 1855 by Bishop John Armstrong as an Anglican school to serve the Eastern Province, St. Andrew's was in danger of closing until the tenure of its sixth headmaster, Canon John Espin, began in 1882. Around this time, St. Andrew's sister school, the Diocesan School for Girls (DSG) and a junior school, St. Andrew's Preparatory had been established. University classes were also conducted at the school until four St. Andrew's colleagues became founding professors of Rhodes University in 1904.

Co-instruction with DSG from grade 10(and a few in grade 8 and 9) upwards began in 1974 and a joint music school was built in the 1980s.

During apartheid in South Africa, St. Andrew's began admitting black boys in 1979, a decade before the lifting of racial restrictions on enrolment.

Headmasters

St Andrew's College Clocktower
  • Rev. F. Bankes (1855 - 1859)
  • Rev. F.Y. St. Leger (1859 - 1862)
  • Rev. G.E. Cotterill (1863 - 1865)
  • Rev. Langford S. Browne (1865 - 1875)
  • Rev. G. Gould Ross (1875 - 1881)
  • Canon John Espin (1882 - 1902)
  • Rev. W. S. Macgowan (1902 - 1908)
  • Canon Percy W.H. Kettlewell (1909 - 1933)
  • Canon C.B. Armstrong (1934 - 1938)
  • Ronald F. Currey (Oxon) (1939 - 1955)
  • Freddy Spencer Chapman (1956 - 1962)
  • J.L. Cawse (1962 - 1964)
  • Canon John Aubrey (1965 - 1971)
  • E.B. Norton (1972 - 1980)
  • Arthur F.G. Cotton (1981 - 1993)
  • Antony R. Clark (Cantab) (1994 - 2002)
  • David B. Wylde (Oxon) (2003 - Present)

Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship was instituted in 1903, and St. Andrew's is one of four schools in South Africa that may award a Rhodes Scholarship every year to an ex-pupil (and recently to ex-pupils of the DSG) to study at the University of Oxford.

Similarly, the Douglas Smith Scholarship is awarded to study at the University of Cambridge.

Academics

St. Andrew's writes the Independent Examinations Board exams.

IEB Results 2005 2006 2007
Number of candidates 72 74 83
Number of failures 0 0 0
University endorsement (%) 90 92
A aggregates (%) 32 17.5 19
A-B-C aggregates (%)
Subject distinctions 99 73 85
Number in top 50 1 1 1

The College today

440 boys attend the College and it has close interaction with its sister school, the Diocesan School for Girls in that all academic classes are shared from Grade 10 onwards. This is a quite unique situation in South Africa. Classes may be held at either of the two schools and are 48 minutes long.

150th jubilee

The 150th jubilee fundraiser in 2005 raised over R45 million.

Notable Old Andreans (year of matriculation)

Military

Victoria Cross Holders

Two Old Andreans have won the Victoria Cross.

References

  1. ^ Edmund Burke, (1917), Annual Register, page 171, (Rivingtons)
  2. ^ Ronald Fairbridge Currey, (1955), St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, 1855-1955, page 117, (Blackwell)

See also

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