Durban Girls' College


Durban Girls' College is an independent boarding and day school for girls, with weekly boarding facilities for high school pupils, located on the Berea, overlooking the city of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

History

Durban Girls’ College was founded in 1877 as the Durban Young Ladies’ Collegiate Institution by a group of six Durban Commissioners and Protestant Clergy under the leadership of J F Churchill. The founders are remembered in a service each year, and the six school houses bear their names – Churchill, Cottam, Greenacre, Hunter, Palmer and Rutherford. In 1905, college moved to Musgrave Road, its present site, which was donated by Sir Benjamin Greenacre.

Academics

The class of 2018 achieved outstanding results:
100% Bachelor Degree pass rate which will allow all of the girls to pursue tertiary studies in 2019 and beyond. Three candidates were placed on the IEB List of Outstanding Achievers; they are among 61 pupils from 41 schools nationally. In addition DGC had 16 candidates who achieved results that placed them in the top 1% of the IEB candidates nationally in individual subjects.

Exceptional achievements

College anthem

The college anthem is All Hail the College Galleon, composed by old girl, June Drummond in 1940.