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Port Alfred School is a family school. We cater for children from nursery school to matric on one beautiful campus with one Principal and one Governing Body.

We celebrate our origin at a special Founders Day Assembly in August each year. On this special day, everyone takes the time to reflect on just how far our town’s oldest school has come since those early days of 1883. This was the year the school was officially converted into a Government School and was housed in an Anglican church building in Park Road.

The school then had an enrolment of about fifty boys and girls.

Over the years, the school has grown to nearly 1000 children from nursery school to matric. Rooted in a proud past, the Port Alfred School staff, governing body, alumni and greater community work together to move with the times, catering to the needs of our children on a multitude of levels.

The school’s motto, “Facta Non-Verba” meaning “Deeds and not Words” is a constant theme that the School underpins at every opportunity. Honesty, integrity, grit and determination, perseverance, loyalty and commitment are qualities held in high regard by one and all at Port Alfred School.