| St Charles College | |
| Street: | Harwin Road, Scottville |
| Motto: | Fideli certa merces – To the faithful one, a certain reward |
| District: | District 9 |
| Number: | 033 386 8265 |
| Grades: | 00012 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Head Name: | College Principal |
| Head: | Mr Allen van Blerk |
| Head Name2: | Curriculum |
| Head2: | Cambridge International Examinations in the Senior School and Singapore Mathematics and Science in the Preparatory School. |
| Colours: | Blue Gold White |
| Houses: | Conway Delalle O'Meara Smith |
| Students: | 900 boys |
| Campus: | Urban Campus |
| Campus Type: | Suburban |
| Lower Age: | 3 |
| Upper Age: | 18 |
| Schedule: | 07:00 – 17:00 |
| Song: | Together Standing Tall |
St Charles College, founded in 1875, is a Christian, independent boys college situated in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, catering for day boys from Grade 000 to Matric, with boarders from Grade 4 upwards.
St Charles Grammar School for Boys was established on 26 July 1875 by Bishop Charles Jolivet of the Order of Mary Immaculate (OMI), in Loop Street, Pietermaritzburg. The school was later sold to the Marist Brothers in 1912 who renamed it St Charles College. Growth was so substantial that 14 years later it was necessary to move the college out of its cramped buildings in the city to the suburb of Scottsville, also in Pietermaritzburg. Undergoing rapid expansion, particularly in the 1950s, the future of St Charles was seemingly assured until, with declining interest in vocations in the Catholic Church, the college almost closed its doors in 1978. It was saved by the eleventh-hour intervention of a small group of Old Boys who worked to re-establish the college, resulting in a non-denominational school with a secular Headmaster.
St Charles College offers Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) in the senior school. In 2002, Previous headmaster Ronnie Kuhn, implemented CIE Examinations into the school system and 2012 marked the tenth anniversary that St. Charles College has benefited from using CIE. Students in grade 10, write IGCSE and students in grade 11 and 12 write AS and A Levels, the GCE Advanced Level.
The school is situated on 35ha of land in Scottsville Pietermaritzburg. St Charles College provides a large variety of sports.
St. Charles College is one of the South Africas' top basketball playing schools, being consistently ranked in the top 10. A number of its pupils have represented Kwazulu-Natal & South Africa over the years in various age groups, including the senior national team.
The school in its basketball playing history, has also produced highly successful coach Stewart Bradford, also a former pupil and Head boy of the school who once went on to become a national team selector. St. Charles basketball owed much of its earlier years success to his leadership as 1st team coach, which included coaching the school to a national basketball championship title win in 1998.
The school enjoys rivalries with South Africas' top basketball playing school, Durban High School and a much bigger rivalry with fellow Pietermaritzburg high school basketball powerhouse Maritzburg College.
Facilities include:
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St. Charles College has been performing very well on sports during the year.
There are currently four houses at St. Charles College, with equal numbers of students in each. O'Meara House was disbanded by former Principal, Mr Ronnie Kuhn, in 1991 due to small numbers at the college in the early years of his Principalship. Kuhn's reasoning for disbanding O'Meara House was that the numbers at the Senior School were at about 180 which meant four Houses had approximately 45 boys each – three Houses meant 60 boys per House.