C&U Universities, TVET colleges, subjects, 25,000+ schools.
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$ curl https://api.helpdeskcentral.co.za/schools/api/geo/schools?q=curro&limit=2 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_••••••••" { "total": 25, "results": [ { "name": "Curro Durbanville", "city": "Cape Town", "province": "Western Cape" } ] }
The API in numbers
One key, every South African education dataset.
Everything you need to build
Comprehensive, structured education data delivered via a clean REST API.
Universities
26 institutions — filter by province, slug or short name.
TVET Colleges
50+ colleges with cities, provinces and slugs.
High Schools
25,505 schools with province, city, suburb and name search.
Subjects
Full subject list with a simple q= search.
Grades & Languages
Curriculum grades and official languages reference data.
Prospectuses
List every prospectus or fetch one by college slug.
Production-ready from day one
Built for South African edtech. Designed for reliability.
<100ms median response
Optimised queries with indexes on every filterable column.
Real-time freshness
Data is updated continuously. Always current, never stale.
Simple auth
Bearer token, X-API-Key header or ?key= param. Hashed server-side.
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