Private & international schools in Pietermaritzburg

Scottsville sites and an unresolved primary-entry distinction

Epworth publishes 95 Golf Road, Scottsville; St Charles gives Harwin Road and a Scottsville postal address. Book the intended school division rather than interpreting proximity as a shared intake or timetable. St Charles’s senior-primary page identifies Years 4–Form 1 and Cambridge Primary within that phase; it does not establish the same curriculum for every younger class.

Epworth’s directly checked preparatory page describes coeducational RRR–R and girls-only Grades 1–7. Its officially indexed admissions page instead describes boys and girls through Grade 7, then girls in Grades 8–12. The disagreement is material for a boy seeking primary entry. Ask Epworth to confirm the applicable intake year, gender eligibility and division in writing; its page titles or older coeducational references do not resolve the conflict.

Sources: Epworth preparatory gender scope and Golf Road address · Epworth official indexed admissions description · St Charles Harwin Road and boarding contacts by phase · St Charles senior-primary Cambridge phase

IEB matric and Cambridge senior choices are different sequences

Epworth’s academic page describes Grade 12 IEB National Senior Certificate examinations and distinguishes its Grades 8–9 curriculum from senior subject choices. That official text was available through indexing after direct retrieval failed; confirm the current cohort’s language, mathematics and elective combination with the High School. A senior qualification label should not be extended back to claim every preparatory class follows that examination syllabus.

St Charles publishes IGCSE at the end of Form 4, AS study in Form 5, then Form 6 choices including AS, A levels and applied routes such as Cambridge Design and Technology. It describes route decisions in relation to results, strengths and future study requirements. Ask the academic team to map existing subjects and credits to that sequence; a Form label or advertised applied route does not itself settle a university’s admission requirements.

Sources: Epworth official indexed IEB and secondary subject phases · St Charles Form 4 IGCSE and Form 5–6 pathways

Check the residential offer and the joining year’s costs

St Charles’s contact page lists boarding staff for Years 4–7, Form 2, Form 3, Form 4 and Forms 5–6. Confirm eligibility and a residential place with the boarding team separately from the school application. Its admissions page asks for identity, photograph, the latest report and financial documentation, with a simpler report requirement for pre-primary pupils who have none; later steps depend on the entry point.

Epworth’s published 2026 fee document separates tuition, levies and boarding rows and flags a Grade 8 laptop requirement from 2027. Keep that future requirement separate from a quotation for 2026. St Charles’s admissions page also publishes scholarship assessments on 5 March 2027, which are future at this review. Request each school’s intended-year charges, device specification, examination extras and residential conditions, rather than treating a scholarship assessment or a fee row as an admission offer.

Sources: St Charles Harwin Road and boarding contacts by phase · St Charles application evidence and future 2027 assessments · Epworth dated 2026 fees and future Grade 8 laptop requirement

Compare documented pathways and campuses

These are the pathways recorded for each included campus. Online provision appears separately. A senior qualification does not establish provision in younger years.

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