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 2023. A total of 185 candidates wrote the NSC examinations last year, with 134 achieving a Bachelor’s pass, 37 achieving a Diploma pass and eight achieving a Higher Certificate pass. Learners achieved a cumulative 226 distinctions with top achiever, Joshua Blom achieving 8 As.
A further five learners achieving 7 As, two learners achieved 6 As and seven learners achieved 5 As.
Learners who achieved 7 As were:
Learners who achieved 6 As were:
Learners with 5As were:
For more on our 2023 achievers, please download download our HHS 2023 Achievers' Booklet
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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