Grantley College is a mainstream LSEN (learners with special educational needs) edu-support school that caters for learners who have learning disabilities and/or ADD/ADHD that need remedial and individual intervention.

Learners entering Grantley College undergo both scholastic and psychometric testing to ascertain their levels of learning disability and/or fields of interest, to direct them on a path that is both suitable for them and will enhance their individualism within the group.

"It is currently estimated that 6 to 10 percent of the school-aged population in South Africa has a learning difficulty requiring remediation"

In the United States nearly 40 percent of the children enrolled in the nation's special education classes suffer from a learning disability.

Admissions Criteria

Grantley College defines students with specific learning disabilities (basic definition) to mean those learners who have a disorder in one or more of the psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or do mathematical calculations.

Specifically, this means the following:

• A discrepancy must exist between the student's ability or potential and achievement.
• The student must have a learning problem that is not due to intellectual impairment, auditory or visual impairment, or emotional disturbance.
• This does not mean that such learners do not have learning disabilities, but merely that they require multiple services, which Grantley does not provide.
• Generally, students who exhibit an average to above average intellect with learning disabilities are enrolled at Grantley College.

Grantley takes students from Grade 8 to Grade 12, although we generally do not admit learners into Grade 12.