Barnato Park 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.HistoryThe 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.