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Viviers, quoted by the Free State study, dates the high school (grades 9 to 12) to 1935, with 132 pupils. Grade 8 followed in 1943. The same study treats the mid-1930s as the town’s population peak before the later rural exodus. Source: UFS CDS Research Report 2006(3), citing Viviers 2000 https://www.ufs.ac.za/docs/librariesprovider23/centre-for-development-support-documents/all-documents/led---research-report-2006(3)-83-eng.pdf