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Through the weighted factor applied by the GDE, The Gateway School is given a rating equivalent to a main stream primary school with more than 1130 learners, hence the staff compliment of more than 70 qualified professionals being teachers, therapists (Speech, Occupational) nursing sister, admin staff, bus drivers and general assistants.

The Gateway School operates a fleet of 18 microbuses that transport its disabled learners to and from all sectors of the community in our rainbow nation, covering a total distance of more than 1300 kilometers per day.

A very caring community, with a true social responsibility in trying to improve the lives of the less fortunate amongst us, established The Gateway School in 1972.  The school is very proud of all its accomplishments during the past 34 years in being able to improve the lives of so many of the learners who have benefited from all the school has to offer.

The following is a chronological history of key events:

1972
The Gateway School was founded.  It consisted of six children with severe intellectual disabilities at an old abandoned mine hospital in Luipaardsvlei.
1975
The school moved to the larger Florida Park premises with prefabricated classrooms and offices in an old farmhouse, all of which was restored by staff and School Governing Body members
1976
New legislation was promulgated and the school became partly state aided by the Department of Education.
1994
Land was acquired, finances negotiated, new permanent buildings planned and erected.  All of this was done in its entirety by the Principal and School Governing Body
1995
The Gateway School moved to its new premises on 3-hectares of a site in Ruimsig.
2002
The Gateway School with 287 learners celebrated a successful 30-year anniversary.
2006
The School Budget is approximately R2.4 million of which The Gauteng Department of Education subsidizes in the region of 25% the balance is made up from parents, fundraising and donors

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