St Stithians College, combined school in South Africa
St Stithians College is a combined day and boarding school in Randburg, a northern suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, taking students from early childhood through the end of secondary school. The campus is made up of several buildings divided into separate sections for primary and secondary learners, with sports fields, dormitories, and a chapel spread across the grounds.
St Stithians College was founded in 1953 by the Anglican Church of the Province of Southern Africa, starting as a small boys' school with only a handful of students. Over the following decades, the school opened its doors to girls and grew into one of the more established private schools in the Gauteng region.
The college takes its name from Saint Stithian, a Welsh saint whose name is rare outside of Wales and almost unheard of in southern Africa. The school has a chapel on campus that is used for regular services, reflecting the Anglican tradition that has shaped its identity since its founding.
The campus is in Randburg and can be reached via Witkoppen Road, with separate entrances for day students and boarders. Since this is a working school, visitors are generally not allowed onto the grounds without prior arrangement, so it is worth contacting the school before any visit.
Although the college is named after a Welsh saint, it sits in the middle of Johannesburg's northern suburbs with no particular Welsh community or Celtic connection in the area. The name came through the Anglican Church, which named many of its schools in the region after British and Welsh saints during the mid-20th century.
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