Phikwe region school results plummet

Onalenna Kelebeile | Tuesday January 31, 2017 16:15

Meepong Junior Secondary School(JSS) dropped from position five nationally last year to position 15 while Phatsimo JSS dropped from position 11 to 15.

Makhubu JSS on the other hand retained position three but dropped in the pass rate.

The school has however exceeded the Ministry of Basic Education’s target of a 60% pass rate by attaining 68.6%.

At the lower level, none of Phikwe’s primary schools reached the sub-region’s target of 90% pass rate. Phikwe Primary School dropped drastically from 95.7% to 87.8% while Boitshoko Primary School also nosedived from 89.2% to 76.6%.

The sub-regional Education Office has dispatched a task team to the local schools to categorise them according to their performance and identify those that have declined, those that have added value, those that have reached the target as well as those that have improved significantly.

Chief Education Officer Lillian Matshameko told Mmegi that the task team had already started working in primary schools.

“The task team began at Boitshoko to start planning, strategising and sharing best practices with them.

We started with schools that dropped drastically then we will move to those that slightly dropped until we cover all of them,” she said.

The team is scheduled to spend only two weeks among the primary schools before proceeding to the junior secondary schools. Ô

“Our wish is that we could have at least maintained the positions we had in 2016 instead of dropping.

We however cannot attribute the decline to the BCL situation because all schools nationally have dropped,” she said.