School Type: Co-Educational

Our founders envisioned a School that would represent, at its heart, creativity, independence and fundamentally progressive educational practice.

Cedar House is a School that will provide young people with a foundation of academic rigour and the capacity to question, deliberate, debate and engage, thoughtfully, with the complexity of their futures. We are unashamedly future-orientated and, at the same time, we commit to privileging values that we believe will equip the young people in our care with the confidence to become happy and productive adults.

We view our size as a significant strength and commit to developing strong working relationships with our parents and with each of our students. Staff, Parents' and Students' Forums are powerful bodies at Cedar House, each of which will play an important role in our School's future directions.

As an independent School and as a committed member of the Independent Schools' Association of Southern Africa, we undertake to use our independence to privilege not only curricular innovation but also to design a School that will move into the future successfully and thoughtfully. As an independent School, we are excited about exercising our freedom and flexibility to choose, to delve and to create.

We are a unique school and believe that we are powerfully placed to provide 21st century young South Africans with an exceptional education. We value and attempt to develop the following in our students:

• a lifelong interest in learning
• the capacity to adapt to an ever-changing world
• comfort in the face of complexity and ambiguity
• reflection about our South African context
• a commitment to making a difference
• a commitment to stretching ourselves so that we live as fully as possible
• lateral thinking ability and innovative problem-solving strategies
• a focus on relationship-building
• learning from mistakes and criticism

Cedar House School has been recognised by the Western Cape Education Department as being one of 16 top performing schools as far as 2001-2003 Matric results are concerned. This confirms our place as a top quality provider of excellent and focused education. In 2004 Cedar House was the only school in the Western Cape to obtain both a 100% pass rate and 100% matric exemption.

School Phase:

• Secondary

Lowest Grade: Grade 8
Highest Grade: Grade 12
Boarding: No
Number of Pupils: 182
Founding Year: 1997
Religious Affiliation: Interdenominational
Lowest Tuition Fees Per Annum (2008): R39900
Highest Tuition Fees Per Annum (2008): R39900
Examinations or Curricula:

• National Senior Certificate (IEB)

Postal Address: PO Box 2365, Clareinch
Postal Code: 7740
Telephone: 021 762 0649
Fax: 021 761 8556
Website: http://www.cedarhouse.co.za/
Suburb: Kenilworth
City/Town: Cape Town
South African Province: Western Cape
Country: South Africa