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Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent
St Anthony High School in Zaka is Masvingo Province’s overall best school in the 2017 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council O-Level examinations after it recorded a 100 percent pass rate.

According to results released by Zimsec on Friday last week, the Catholic-run school emerged third overall best in the examinations countrywide.

All the school’s 76 students who sat for the O-Level exams last year scored at least five passes with quite a number scoring five As and above.

Masvingo deputy provincial director Mr Andrew Chikwange yesterday said the province was yet to make a full analysis of the results.

Preliminary indications were that St Anthony outshone other schools in the province. Mr Chikwange said while they were yet to do a qualitative analysis of the results, most of the schools in Masvingo were among the best 100 schools in the country, with the Zion Christian Church-run Hebron High School in Mwenezi and Zaka High School coming sixth and eighth respectively.

Both schools also scored 100 percent pass rates.

Traditional power houses like Gokomere and Pamushana high schools were relegated to positions 28 and 33 after achieving pass rates of 98 and 97,96 percent respectively.

“We have not completed making our analysis of the results, but I can tell you that, Hebron and Zaka High School are in the national top 10,” said Mr Chikwange.

“The three schools scored 100 pass rates, with St Anthony coming first and third in the province and nationally respectively.”

Mr Chikwange said the trend differed on qualitative analysis, as some schools which were not among the top 10 in the country had more pupils who scored five As and above, but failed to get more pupils who passed five subjects and above.