AFRICAN SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE
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Mission Statement
African School for Excellence (ASE) is a non-profit organization running a network of low cost, high quality secondary schools in disadvantaged areas across South Africa.
About This Cause
African School for Excellence (ASE) is a non-profit organisation aiming to revolutionise South African education. South Africa spends 20% of its national budget on education, among the world’s highest rates, yet very few black South Africans graduate university every year. African School for Excellence addresses the two pain points in South African education—cost and quality—with a new model for high-school education, one that provides a world-class, affordable, financially-sustainable and scalable education in the township. African School for Excellence operates its first school in co-founder Nonhlanhla Masina's home township of Tsakane. The school launched in 2013 and sourced scholars exclusively from local government schools. Today 277 scholars are enrolled in grades 7-9. The per-learner cost is roughly 40% less than government schools, and up to 90% less than top-achieving independent schools. 100% of school-based staff is black, and 72% are from the local community. Since 2011, African School for Excellence has run holiday programmes in the Johannesburg townships of Soweto, Tsakane, Thembisa, and Etwatwa, with consistently impressive academic gains. In 2014, the Grade 8 scholars wrote the Grade 9 Annual National Assessment, and outperformed the wealthiest quintile of South African learners in both mathematics and English home language. More than 9 out of 10 performed in the top 10% of the country in mathematics, and the class outpaced national averages by nearly 5 times. One third of ASE Grade 8’s qualified for the semi-finals of the National Mathematics Olympiad in 2014, and ASE teams achieved 1st place and 3rd place in the Lebati Ekurhuleni High School Science Fair.