To our Matric Class of 2025

We want to reiterate that at UCT Online High School, only learners who meet their required active hours are counted as having attended UCT Online High School. South African regulation states that learners in Senior (Gr 8 & 9) and FET (G10 - 12) should be spending a minimum of 27.5 hours a week engaged in learning.

In 2025, Matric learners who attended UCT Online High School achieved an 85% pass rate.

We acknowledge the range of emotions - from joy and relief to disappointment and uncertainty - that the release of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) results brings to learners and their families.

We extend our deepest congratulations to every member of the Matric Class of 2025 who put in the effort and commitment to reach this significant milestone.

Validating Our Approach: Where Hard Work and Engagement Pays Off

Our analysis continues to demonstrate key trends that validate our teaching and learning philosophy:

• Long-Term Commitment Works: Learners who completed their entire FET phase (Grade 10, 11, and 12) with the school had a significantly higher probability of achieving a passing grade. .
• Engagement is Crucial: Learners who met or exceeded the minimum engagement requirements of at least 4 hours per day engaging with their course work achieved better outcomes, highlighting that consistent, focused time on task is the most critical predictor of academic success.

Significant Achievements

Every learner deserves recognition for their efforts, and we celebrate their achievements, big or small. Some of the significant achievements of the class of 2025 include:

• 3 learners from the matric 2025 cohort will be acknowledged for excellence at the National SACAI Excellence Awards on 17 January.
• 601 distinctions across a range of subjects including Mathematics, Economics, Physical Sciences, Visual Arts, isiZulu First Additional Language, Afrikaans First Additional Language, Accounting and English Home Language.
• A UCT Online High School learner who achieved 100% for Mathematics
• The UCT Online High School top achiever from the 2025 cohort achieved 6 distinctions with an overall average of 90%.

For our learners who did not achieve the results they were hoping for, we encourage you to contact SACAI as well as apply for a remark or rewrite. How to do this, and when to do this by, has been communicated to the class of 2025.

We also want to take this opportunity to reassure our families that all School Based Assessment (SBA) results were submitted by us to SACAI in good time. Our guardians will shortly be able to view their learner’s SBA results via the Guardian Portal and will receive further communication once they are available.

We continue to stand proudly by our founding mission and commitment to making quality education accessible by not setting academic barriers to enrollment, nor preventing Grade 11s from enrolling in Grade 12 to boost our academic results.

UCT Online High School is one of the few schools in the country that allow Grade 12 learners to register with us at the start of their Matric year. Because of this, UCT Online High School serves a unique profile of families, from across all Provinces, and from far more diverse circumstances, than a traditional school.

We strongly believe that every learner who wants to write their National Senior Certificate should have the opportunity and support to do so and we will continue to stand by this commitment.