Notice To Public

Application forms for admission 2021 will be available as from 1^st September 2020

Job Vacancies

The School Governing Body of Kuschke Agricultural Secondary School is in need
of 2 (two) general assistants. Click here for more information

Our History

• Kuschke was named after Mr. G.A Kuschke who was an administrator of the Transvaal
• Education Department before 1935.
• Bekker was the founder of the idea of schools like Kuschke.
• Jimmy Dey was the original architect of Kuschke.
• On 6 July 1935 Mr. Grove Steyn came to Kuschke to see the land before the school was even built.
• He was the first Headmaster of Kuschke and left in 1952.
• On 31 December 1935 Mr. Steyn and his family moved onto Kuschke grounds.
• On January 1936 the building of the school started in all earnest.
• Also half way through 1936 they started building the 6 Hostels, dining hall, kitchen, storerooms and teacher accommodation.
• On 9 February 1937 – 75 grade 7 – 10 learners moved into the hostels.
• The school would have officially been opened on 11 February 1937 but due to heavy rains people could not travel to the school.
• The school was officially opened on 3 May 1937.
• In 1946 all the Provincial committee members visited Kuschke with General Pienaar.
• Bekker died suddenly in July 1938.
• Kuschke – the person after which the school was named – was now no longer directly involved with the school system as he got promoted.
• In 1945 there was more than 400 students in Kuschke, that was when the school was split up.
• On 10 April 1945 the split took place – 159 students went to the junior school in Marabastad – this school went up to grade 5, school now called Chris Hofmeyr. Kuschke took student from grade 7 and totaled 285 students with 97% attendance.
• The school grew in numbers and went from strength to strength.
• Grové Steyn Hostel was named after him and Vickey Steyn Hostel after his wife.
• All the other hostels is named after trees that grows in the area.