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Jeppe High School for Boys is a public English medium high school for boys in Kensington, a suburb of Johannesburg in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is one of the 23 Milner Schools , and its sister school is Jeppe High School for Girls .
Due to the boys out-numbering the girls, and pressure from the Governing Body of the school, who were against the co-educational system of the school, it was decided that the girls would be moved to other premises. [10] Miss E L Cummins, the first headmistress of a Jeppe High School for Girls, joined the schools staff in 1904.
The new headmaster of the school, in 1902, was Mr. C D Hope. He remained headmaster until he left in 1904. He was succeeded by Mr. J H Payne, who became a staff member in 1902 and remained headmaster until his death, in 1917, during his service in the First World War. Mr. Payne acquired the building that the Jeppe Boys students currently occupy ...
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Since the school's inception "Boys High" has produced many internationally recognized sportsmen. A wide variety of sports are offered at the school of which the more popular ones include: rugby, hockey, cricket, tennis, and swimming. Beyond this, each student is then required to do athletics at inter-house level.
Jeppestown, 1888. Jeppestown was established in or after 1886 by C.E.G. Julius Jeppe [], who formed the Ford and Jeppe Estate Company with his son, who was also called Julius Jeppe [], and L.P. Ford. [2] In 1893, the Masonic temple was completed. [3]
Parktown Boys' High School was the first government school to allow boys who were discriminated against because of their colour into a mainstream 'white' school in 1991. Parktown Boys' High School was the first school in South Africa to install an international standard water-based Astroturf playing surface.
PHSG also won the Most Improved Schools Awards of 2007 together with 10 other schools around the country. [11] They won a prize for Excellence in Mathematics because 138 students attained a higher grade maths pass mark. [11] It is in the top 5 public schools in the province. [13] In 2009, the school had a 99.9 percent Matric pass rate. [12]