Muir College is a semi-private English medium high school for boys located in the Kariega (Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality) suburb of Vanes Estate in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. Muir serves students in grades 4 through 12. It was founded in 1822 and is one of South Africa’s oldest schools.
Muir College is without a doubt South Africa’s oldest boys’ high school, dating back to 1822, when a Scottish educationalist, James Rose Innes MA (King’s College, Aberdeen), opened Uitenhage’s first Free Government School on Cuyler Street on October 12, with 60 students. Admission was available to all children, regardless of gender, race, or economic position, and enrollment had climbed to 167 by 1829. Innes resigned in 1830 to become Professor of Mathematics at the South African College in Cape Town, and in 1839 he became the Cape’s first Superintendent-General of Education. In 1865, the Rev Dr Robert Templeton MA (Glasgow) became the first headmaster of the Uitenhage Proprietary School, a private, fee-paying school in Uitenhage.
When and where was South Africa’s first school established?
SACS, founded in September 1829, is South Africa’s oldest high school. It has the most spectacular setting at the foot of Table Mountain and Devils Peak.
What is South Africa’s largest school?
Ngangolwandle Senior Secondary School is South Africa’s largest school. It lies in Elliotdale and has a population of 3795 people.
