What type of school is Ubuhle Buzile Secondary School?

Ubuhle Buzile 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?

Ubuhle Buzile Secondary School has 2,143 enrolled learners and 62 educators. The learner-educator ratio is 35:1.

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 Ubuhle Buzile Secondary School located?

Ubuhle Buzile Secondary School is in Piet Retief, GERT SIBANDE district, Mpumalanga. Address: 6641 Phola Park eThandukukhanya PIET RETIEF, , PIET RETIEF, 2380.

Ubuhle Buzile Secondary School

SecondaryPublic EMIS: 800035612

Piet Retief, GERT SIBANDE, Mpumalanga

2,143

Learners

35:1

L:E Ratio

Quintile

Source: DBE EMIS Q3 2025

What kind of school is Ubuhle Buzile Secondary School?

Ubuhle Buzile Secondary School is a public secondary school in Piet Retief, within the GERT SIBANDE education district of the Mpumalanga. EMIS records it as a very large school with 2,143 enrolled learners and 62 educators, giving a learner-to-educator ratio of 35:1. 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 2,143 enrolled learners.

What is the learner-to-educator ratio at Ubuhle Buzile 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 20%

(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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Which schools are similar to Ubuhle Buzile Secondary School?

Secondary schools in Piet Retief with a similar quintile (Q1).

Qedela Secondary School

SecondaryPublicQ1

1,259 learners 38 educators 33:1

Lower L:E ratio than 33%

Piet Retief

Siphokuhle Secondary School

SecondaryPublicQ1

811 learners 23 educators 35:1

Lower L:E ratio than 14%

Piet Retief

Inqubeko Secondary School

SecondaryPublicQ1

1,944 learners 55 educators 35:1

Lower L:E ratio than 14%

Piet Retief

Frequently Asked Questions

Contact

6641 Phola Park eThandukukhanya PIET RETIEF, , PIET RETIEF, 2380

0826743171

Location

Map not available — GIS coordinates are not recorded for this school in the EMIS database.

Interested in Ubuhle Buzile Secondary School?

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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.