Parktown Boys' High School was founded in 1920.
Past pupils include a number of top businessmen, doctors, soldiers and international sportsmen, the best known of which is perhaps Wayne Ferreira, the tennis player.
Other past pupils include a Battle of Britain pilot and a member of Britain's House of Lords. Today the school maintains a long-standing affiliation with the Transvaal Scottish Regiment.
Its hostel, Druce Hall, was opened in 1985 and is named after PM Druce, the school's first headmaster.
Known as Vulcans in terms of the school's house tradition, the boys have dominated the inter-house Prefects' Shield Competition.
The house has produced several head boys as well as the captains of rugby, hockey, cricket, rowing and squash, "bearing testimony to the fact that the Druce Hall system develops men of the highest calibre".
Run from Sunday evening to Friday afternoon, Druce Hall "offers the best of all possible worlds for a select group of boys", according to the school website.
The hostel offers supervised, structured study sessions, "no hassles with transport after extra-murals", a ratio of one master to 13 boys and "meaningful socialisation in a safe and caring environment".
This week, the chairperson of Druce Hall parents' association, Marc McLean, said "all the Grade 11s and half the matrics are children who come from northern suburbs homes. My son is one of them. He comes from a home with all the bells and whistles, but he chooses to be there to be part of the true spirit of the place.
"The head boy of the house is a success story of note. He's done an incredible amount to achieve, but now it's all gone." - Kevin Ritchie
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