We pride ourselves on having produced many fine academics, sportsmen and sportswomen over the years, many of whom are showcased under Past Student Achievements. Please do take a moment to browse through this section of the website.
Hillcrest High School is proud of the achievements of the Grade 12 Class of 2024. A total of 217 candidates wrote the NSC examinations at the school last year, with 156 achieving a Bachelor’s pass, 42 achieving a Diploma pass and 12 achieving Higher Certificate passes. Learners achieved a cumulative 195 distinctions with top achiever, Annika Adendorff achieving 8 As.
“Well done to our Grade 12 Class of 2024. Despite the numerous challenges you faced during your high school careers – from COVID-19, riots, floods, loadshedding, and water outages, you have made it through. We hope that you are all proud of the results you have achieved in the National Senior Certificate examinations,” said Mrs Denise Knight, Principal of Hillcrest High School. The Class of 2024 achieved 195 As across the grade, with one learner achieving 8 As and two learners achieving 7 As. A further four learners achieved 5As and six achieved 4 As.
Top achiever for 2024, Annika Adendorff, who achieved As for Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Life Sciences, Accounting, English, Afrikaans First Additional Language and Life Orientation, also achieved an A for the additional subject she took, German Second Additional Language. She said she had no secret to share for how she achieved such excellent results. “I listened during class, and I did my homework. That made it easier when it was time to learn for exams or tests,” she says. Adendorff plans to study Chemistry and Physics at Potchefstroom University.
Two learners achieved 7 As - Kiarra Chetty achieved As for Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Life Sciences, English, Afrikaans First Additional Language, History and Life Orientation. She plans to study Medicine this year. Abigail King, who also achieved 7As, excelled in Life Sciences, History, Tourism, Visual Arts, English, Afrikaans First Additional Language, Mathematical Literacy and Life Orientation.
Learners who achieved 5As were:
Learners who achieved 4As were:
Download the 2024 Achievers Booklet for further results - Hillcrest High School Achievers - 2024
In the KwaZulu-Natal Senior Certificate Examinations:
We are consistently one of the top schools, having been placed recently in the Sunday Times’ Top 100 Schools in South Africa;
Our learners have been placed regularly in the top 40;
In 1996 and in 2012, we had the top candidate in Kwazulu-Natal;
Our exemption and pass rates are well above the Provincial average.
In past years, Hillcrest High School students have been awarded with the:
Grade 12 KwaZulu-Natal Young Geographers' Conference
Grade 11 South African Young Historians' Conference
Grade 10 and 12 Alan Paton Literary Competition.
Hillcrest High School has consistently achieved in external academic Olympiads and Conquestas, resulting in top places in the English, Afrikaans, Science, and IT Olympiads. In 2023 HHS was awarded 1st place in the Grade 9 Natural Sciences Conquesta and 2nd place in the Grade 8 Natural Sciences Conquesta for 2023. In the Computer Programming Olympiad, HHS achieved First place in KwaZulu-Natal in the Second Round.
Other achievements include:
Hillcrest High School was awarded 2nd place in the KwaSanti Circuit for 2023. Our educators were celebrated by the Department of Education, Umhlatuzana Circuit Management for the outstanding pass rates of Grade 12 of 2023 learners in their gateway subjects - IT, Business Studies, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Geography, Engineering Graphics and Design and Mathematics
Maskew Miller Longman Trophy for the Best Performing School in the Pinetown District (Matric 2000)
ELITS Provincial Library Award for Excellence in 2003.
In 2022 we received two awards viz. for a school that has obtained consistently excellent Matric results (our pass rate has been above 99% for the last 3 years) and for the Quintile 5 (top quintile) school that obtained the best Physical Science results in the District.
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