Top JCE performer continues sparkling form

Mmegi: At a time when the country is grappling with a declining pass rate, your school continues to record outstanding results and continuity among the Top 5 schools. As school head, what’s your response to being the best performer in the 2014 Junior Certificate Examinations?

JN: We are equally concerned about the drop in the pass rate of our school specially the Merit, A and B and Merit, A, B, C, D categories. Being No. 1 nationally is nothing to be proud about because we have targets that we have set for ourselves to meet and we are not there yet! So we cannot say we have succeeded when we have not reached our targets. These are the targets the school had set; Merit, A and B = 50 percent (actual 47 percent); Merit up to C = 90 percent (actual 79.2 percent) and Merit up to D = 100 percent (actual 97.6 percent).