Rhenish Girls' High School is a boarding school for girls in

Stellenbosch Stellenbosch (; )A Universal Pronounc ...

in the province of

Western Cape The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...

in South Africa. It was founded in 1860, thus making it the oldest girls' school in South Africa (tied with La Rochelle Girls' High School in Paarl).

History

The school was founded by a German mission on 1 May 1860 for the education of the daughters of the missionaries, and had 8 pupils in its first year. The school grew rapidly, as girls from the wider Stellenbosch community joined the missionaries' daughters (by 1866 47 pupils attended the school) . After a new site had been developed on farmland next to Krigeville, the high school moved there in 1958, whilst the primary school continued in the old premises on the Braak. The two sites with their separate age groups remained a single school, and celebrated the centenary in 1960. The primary school moved to the Doornbosch estate in 1984 and turned coeducational in 1985, coinciding with the 125th anniversary of the school. In 1991, the school became one of the first government schools open to all races.The History of Rhenish Girls' High School
Retrieved 2007-11-13 In 2006, a committee called Rhenish 150 was founded to coordinate the 150th anniversary celebrations of the high school. In 2010 they celebrated their 150th Birthday.

Notable alumnae

* Lydia Baumbach, classical scholar * Dominique Scott-Efurd, long-distance runner

External links

School websiteRhenish Primary SchoolWestern Cape Education Department profile

References

Girls' schools in South Africa Boarding schools in South Africa Educational institutions established in 1860 Schools in the Western Cape 1860 establishments in the Cape Colony Stellenbosch {{SouthAfrica-school-stub