What type of school is Empucukweni Secondary School?

Empucukweni Secondary School is classified as a secondary public school in the EMIS database. Contact the school directly for the specific grades they offer.

How many learners attend this school?

Empucukweni Secondary School has 1,478 enrolled learners and 46 educators. The learner-educator ratio is 32:1.

What does Quintile 1 mean?

Quintile 1 schools serve the poorest communities and receive the highest per-learner government funding. They are designated as no-fee schools.

Where is Empucukweni Secondary School located?

Empucukweni Secondary School is in Witbank, NKANGALA district, Mpumalanga. Address: 2971 Cnr Tsotetsi & Ngobe Str, Ext 05, Witbank, 1035.

Empucukweni Secondary School

SecondaryPublic EMIS: 800003616

Witbank, NKANGALA, Mpumalanga

1,478

Learners

32:1

L:E Ratio

Quintile

Source: DBE EMIS Q3 2025

What kind of school is Empucukweni Secondary School?

Empucukweni Secondary School is a public secondary school in Witbank, within the NKANGALA education district of the Mpumalanga. EMIS records it as a large school with 1,478 enrolled learners and 46 educators, giving a learner-to-educator ratio of 32:1. It is classified as Quintile 1 — a government classification based on the surrounding community's socioeconomic profile, not a measure of school quality.

Source: DBE EMIS Q3 2025.

What You Should Know

Large school

This school has 1,478 enrolled learners.

What is the learner-to-educator ratio at Empucukweni Secondary School?

Learner-educator ratio relative to schools in the same quintile and phase. This includes all staff classified as educators (teachers, HODs, principals) — actual class sizes may differ.

Lower L:E ratio than 41%

(Q1 Secondary schools in Mpumalanga)

Matric Results

Matric results are not yet available for this school. This may be because the school writes IEB or Cambridge exams (not included in DBE reporting), is newly registered, or had no matric candidates in recent years.

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What other schools are near Empucukweni Secondary School?

Other schools within a few kilometres. Proximity does not imply similarity — these schools may serve different phases, quintiles, or communities.

Nancy Shiba Primary School

PrimaryPublicQ5

997 learners 25 educators 40:1

Lower L:E ratio than 3%

Witbank · 0.3km away

Johannes Kananda Primary School

PrimaryPublicQ2

1,299 learners 31 educators 42:1

Lower L:E ratio than 4%

Witbank · 0.5km away

Nelson Ngubeni Primary School

PrimaryPublicQ5

688 learners 23 educators 30:1

Lower L:E ratio than 31%

Emalahleni · 0.5km away

Phillip Ndimande Secondary School

SecondaryPublicQ3

1,563 learners 47 educators 33:1

Lower L:E ratio than 32%

Witbank · 0.5km away

Edward Matyeka Primary School

PrimaryPublicQ5

1,342 learners 35 educators 38:1

Lower L:E ratio than 10%

Emalahleni · 0.8km away

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2971 Cnr Tsotetsi & Ngobe Str, Ext 05, Witbank, 1035

0136980258

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School data: DBE EMIS Q3 2025. Matric results: NSC School Performance Report 2025. Infrastructure: NEIMS/EFMS 2021 (historical). Peer comparisons are based on schools within the same quintile, phase, and province. The learner-educator ratio includes all staff classified as educators — actual class sizes may differ. Learn about our methodology

Some data fields may not be available for all schools. Missing data is shown as '—' or 'Not available'. Source: DBE EMIS Q3 2025.