FAQs

PLEASE make sure to apply online on the WCED Website and upload the necessary documents

Only applicants who are invited for a meeting with the principal will be granted a tour of the school.

Greenfield Girls’ Primary School is a Quintile 5 Fee Paying School.

What is a quintile school?

The Minister of Education classifies schools according to the level of poverty in surrounding areas.
The factors that they consider include the surrounding infrastructure and how many homes in the area are made from brick, wood, iron sheeting, and so on.
Schools are then ranked between quintiles 1 and 5, with quintile 1 being schools in a very poor area and quintile 5 being schools in a wealthier area.
Schools in quintiles 1 to 3 are no-fee schools, and schools in quintiles 4 and 5 are fee-charging schools.
Government wholly subsidises schools in quintiles 1 to 3, and minimally subsidises schools in quintiles 4 and 5.
For each province, the Minister must publish a list of no-fee-paying schools where learners are entitled to enrol without paying any school fees. CLICK HERE for the latest available list of no-fee-paying schools in the Western Cape.

Is Greenfield subsidised by the government?

Yes, but minimally.

Public schools are subsidised by the Education Department according to the quintile that they have been classified in. Greenfield Girls’ Primary is classified as a Quintile 5 school.
This is what each quintile school receives per year per learner from the department:

Quintile 1, 2 & 3: R1 471 (no-fee schools)
Quintile 4: R737 (fee paying schools)
Quintile 5: R254 (fee paying schools)

Please note that this excludes Grade R as the department does not at present recognise Grade R as compulsory.

This then equates to, at a maximum capacity of 224 learners (excluding Grade R), an amount of R56 896 per year that Greenfield receives from the department. It covers less than 1% of the school’s operational costs.

Are the Greenfield staff paid by the government?

Only a few!

Greenfield Girls’ Primary strives to maintain high standards in all it does. The school is only able to achieve this by:

Attracting and retaining passionate educators and other staff
Employing additional educators in order to limit class sizes and to focus on specialist subjects
Employing an onsite school counsellor, learning support specialist and having the services of an onsite occupational therapist
Employing student teachers and teacher aids who are instrumental in assisting our educators and girls
Providing a variety of extramural activities in several sporting codes and cultural activities such as dance, drama, art and music
Employing a sports administrator, outside coaches, a dance teacher, an art teacher, a drama teacher and a music teacher
Employing an estate manager and additional support staff to maintain the school’s campus

All of the above involves staff that are often specialised in their specific areas.

Excluding outside coaches, Greenfield has a total of 40 staff members. 8 are employed by the Western Cape Education Department. Those employed by the WCED include the principal, 1 head of department (class teacher), 3 class teachers and 3 support staff.

All other staff members are employed by the School Governing Body (S.G.B.) and remunerated by the school from the fees paid by parents.