A South African School Making a World of Difference  

St Stithians College is a village of schools, comprising a Boys' College, Boys' Preparatory School, Girls' College, Girls' Preparatory School, a Post-Matric Centre and a Pre-Primary School.  Founded in 1953, this city school set on a 90-hectare estate has retained a country atmosphere and yet remained at the cutting edge of education and technology in South Africa.

 The founding vision of a liberal, Christian education means the Chapel is the centre of school life.  This vision has been combined with academic excellence and individual expectations based on international standards to produce an education that is not only richly entrenched in its South African roots, but also sets global standards. Core values and innovative future planning are hallmarks of St Stithians College. 

A highly professional staff corps. strives to educate the whole child; to give pupils the opportunities to explore their strengths; and to instil a sound work ethic, sense of responsibility and compassion, commitment and loyalty in all Saints students.  Professional staff development is also actively encouraged.

 Cultural activities, drama and music form an integral part of the curricula and St Stithians College has a proud sporting tradition, offering a wide variety of sports, with the emphasis on maximum participation and healthy competition.

Saints is an alternative educational model: the co-ordinate model, which offers pupils the best of both worlds.  The co-ordinate model comes from a different set of thinking to the co-educational/monastic debate of the past, and focuses on what is best for the children.  Effective education is about bringing children out of themselves, it is inside out.  What is best for the children is that they grow and develop at their most appropriate pace in a space with which they identify, feel secure, loyal and committed.  The facts of early teenage hood are that boys and girls develop at different paces.  International research has shown that boys and girls perform best when they are taught separately in the early teenage years.  In a nutshell, co-ordination means that sharing and separation can take place on one campus, i.e. single sex schooling, when maturation of girls and boys require it, and mixing, where this would be of benefit.