Type Private Website School Website Founded 1907 | Principal Vincent Hockey School district Erongo Region Color Blue and Yellow | |
Grades Pre-Primary, Primary to 12 | ||
Karibib Private School (KPS) is a private school in Karibib in the Erongo Region of central Namibia. It offers a hostel that caters for its learners from kindergarten to grade 12.
Contents
The school is divided into two phases, phase 1 and phase 2. Academically learners in phase 1 are only allowed to pass with 45% or more in their subjects and should not fail more than one subject. For the phase 2 learners to continue with grade 11, they need to have 30 points in their grade 10.
There are currently 10 teachers and 106 pupils in the pre-primary level to grade 8.
History
The first school in Karibib was opened in 1902 by a missionary. In 1907 Deutsche Schule Karibib (DSK, German: German School Karibib, also: Privatschule Karibib) was opened in town, first as a government school of Imperial Germany, and after World War I as private school. When competition from other German schools eroded its pupil base, the school closed down in 1986. The campus is currently leased to the similarly named but unrelated Karibib Private School which sees itself as continuing the legacy of DSK.
Performance
Karibib Private School was in the top 20 of the best performing High Schools in Namibia in 2013, up from rank 91 in the 2012 school year.