Barnato Park High School
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Berea, Johannesburg, South Africa Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa 2198  South Africa
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| Coordinates | 26°12′0″S 28°5′58″E / 26.20000°S 28.09944°ECoordinates: 26°12′0″S 28°5′58″E / 26.20000°S 28.09944°E |
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| Type | Public school |
| Established | 1990 |
| Founder | Fanny Buckland |
| School district | D9-JE |
| Principal | Mervin Frank |
| Teaching staff | 32 |
| Grades | 8–12 |
| Enrolment | 950 |
| Average class size | 45 |
| Color(s) | Grey, White and Red |
| Slogan | Vincemus!, Vincemus! we win yet again |
| Song | BPHS School Song |
| School fees | R4200 P/a |
| Alumni | Johannesburg Girls High School |
Barnato Park High School is a co-educational school located in Berea, Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built on the mansion that had been designed for Barney Barnato, the mining millionaire.
The large 1897 stone mansion, originally built for the Randlord Barnato, would not be used as he died before the completion of the mansion due to mysterious circumstances. The stone mansion had been located in Berea, Johannesburg and was finished under the supervision of Solly Joel, Barney Barnato's nephew and was known as the Joel house. The premises had been used for a time during the Second Boer War from (1899–1902) as a British Officers' convalescent home and later as temporary premises for the sister school King Edward VII school while its present-day buildings were being erected in Houghton. At a later period the property had been donated to the Transvaal Department of Education to be used as an educational institution which had been founded by Miss Fanny Buckland in Jeppe Street just fourteen months after Johannesburg's birth.They moved with 30 children to a church building in Kirk Street and in 1895 became Cleveland School (after a benefactress), and eventually. Johannesburg Girls' School in Barnato Park in 1912.The grounds and Joel House were given to the Government of the Union of South Africa for a girls' school by Mr Solly Joel,nephew and heir of Barney Barnato. Fanny Buckland was principal and taught for 35 years. She retired in 1922. With the growth of the school, it had to be re-located about three times before ending up in 1910 on its present site in Berea. The Johannesburg girls preparatory school which was known as the younger sister school was separated from the high school in 1905 and moved opposite the school in 1921.
After the first hectic scramble for Johannesburg's gold-bearing land, the Randlords sought less spectacular profits through turning their surplus landholdings to real estate. The Johannesburg Consolidated investment Company headed by the colourful Barney Barnato, laid out the township of Berea in the 1890s as a better-class suburb that they hope would rival Rand Mines' Parktown. Among its attractions was a public recreation ground, Barnato Park. In the middle of it Barnato had in 1897 decreed himself a very stately home indeed. The large stone mansion, built in classical English country-house style, served from 1912 till its demolition in 1962 as the borders' residence of the Johannesburg High School for Girls.
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