Curro had 2 296 matriculants who wrote the 2023 IEB matric exam. They achieved an exceptional pass rate of 99.15% from the numerous Curro campuses around the country as well as for the Curro Online school. The Group maintains its remarkable record of producing top-performing learners, with 66.58% achieving a minimum of a C-average and 9.25% learners achieving an A average.
The Group also has several schools that write the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams, which will see results released on 19 January 2024.
Curro Holdings CEO, Cobus Loubser, commended all the 2023 matriculants and their teachers on the outstanding performance. “Congratulations to all our learners and staff on another year of academic excellence,” he said. “Your IEB results are a demonstration of your hard work, dedication and talent, and we are enormously proud of you. Your future is bright and we believe that you will go on to achieve greater things.”
Exceptional achievements
Curro’s two top performing IEB candidates were Dia Singh from St Dominics Newcastle in Kwa-Zulu Natal and Jessica Biesman-Simons from HeronBridge College in Gauteng. They both achieved above 90% average in all their subjects. Impressively, Singh achieved 10 distinctions.
Six of the Group’s IEB learners achieved an A average in all eight of their subjects and 34 learners achieved an A average in all seven of their subjects.
Sebastiaan van der Wolf from Curro Durbanville, in the Western Cape and Calvin van der Merwe from Curro Bankenveld in Mpumalanga both achieved 100% for Engineering, Graphics and Design.
Celebrating Curro’s online school milestone
Curro Online saw their first Grade 12 cohort write the 2023 final exams. Launched in 2020, Curro Online is a fully online school, making Curro education available to primary and high school learners across South Africa and abroad. All classes take place through live online lessons by dedicated teachers.
“We are exceptionally proud of our first set of Matric results from the online school. It is gratifying to see the success of this education model which was developed for a changing world. It proves that new ways of learning do work,” says Loubser. “Congratulations to everyone who believed in the vision of this pioneering school model and made it a reality.”
Loubser wished each matriculant well as they start their career journey.
