Hoërskool Overkruin
public school in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Hoërskool Overkruin is a public Afrikaans and English language-medium high school in Wonderboom, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
History
Originally named Hoërskool Sinoville, the school was founded on 10 June 1974. It was later renamed to Hoërskool Overkruin and had grown from 408 pupils in 1974 to 1270 by the year 2014.
“Hoërskool Overkruin” enters the record as public school in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hoërskool, Overkruin and public can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15226211. Authority coordinates are -25.685, 28.210. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1270 and 2014.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hoërskool Overkruin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.