Westerford High School 4.55

220 Mount Road
Cape Town, 7700
South Africa

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Westerford High School is a public co-educational high school in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.It has a campus in Rondebosch where the main school buildings are located and a secondary campus in Newlands used for sport. The school is located close to the Newlands Rugby Ground and Table Mountain. The school opened on 21 January 1953 and celebrated its Diamond Jubilee on 7 March 2013.Westerford enjoys a prominent position in the local community, hosting visits from key figures within South Africa such as the then President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela and guest speakers such as former Minister of Education Kader Asmal.In 2009, Westerford High School was ranked by the Sunday Times newspaper as the top state school in South Africa.HistoryWesterford opened at the beginning of January 1954, housed in an old homestead which no longer exists. The site was originally known as Westervoort, but the school was known as Claremont Secondary School from the name of the school which shared a property with a small primary school on Dean Street. The pupils from Claremont Secondary school had transferred their desks to the new property at the end of 1952

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