Primrose High

Experience with secondary schools in South Africa shows clear patterns: good schools maintain consistency in who teaches and who stays, they've thought through how they actually handle discipline (not just policy documents), they track what happens to their students after matric rather than treating year twelve as the finish line, and they resource the subjects that matter—not just the ones that impress visitors. Strong leadership recognises that a school's reputation emerges from a thousand small decisions: how staff interact with parents, whether teachers stay or cycle through, whether struggling students get actual support or just report comments, how the school handles real safety rather than just optics. Schools that work have staff retention, families who return across siblings, and a willingness to discuss where they're not yet strong. Primrose High's track record should be examined through these lenses: continuity, actual student outcomes, and whether the school improves its weaker areas or ignores them.