This table provides the number of grade ones who entered the system 12 years ago, which will provide a useful sense of the drop out rate when one looks at the 2012 matric pass figures. This will allow users to determine the pass rate as a fraction of those who entered the school system 12 years ago. It should show a much smaller pass rate percentage than the official ones, as drop our rates in South Africa are massive. For example last year only 1 out of 10 of the learners who entered the school system in 2000 managed to pass in 2011 in the Eastern Cape. Downloaded data from http://www.education.gov.za/EMISSTATISTICS/StatisticalPublications/tabid/462/Default.aspx as a PDF, isolated the relevant table and scraped to XLS using PDFTOEXCEL online tool
