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Tafelberg School is an English medium Grade 1 - 12 public school in Cape Town, South Africa that offers remedial activities for children with special learning needs.

History
Tafelberg was originally established in Sea Point in Cape Town in 1983 for white students with learning difficulties. It has since moved to a new location in Bothasig in June 2010.

The old 17,000 square metre location which had been the Ellerslie Girls School building in 1899 has been proposed for redevelop by the Western Cape Government. The government believes that the building can be used for high density mised use. The Western Cape Government requested letters of interest from people who wanted to buy the property or to lease it for a period of up to 60 years on condition that the original 1899 buildings and a lane of wild fig trees situated on the property are kept. The old site was declared a provincial heritage site on 15 December 1989 in a government gazette.

Exchange program
Tafelberg has a exchange partnership with Longcause Community Special School in Plymouth.

Ritalin use
in 1999, a psychiatrist at Tafelberg said she estimated that a third of all pupils attending the school were on the drug Ritalin. She said that the drug was only administered at school with permission from a pupil's guardian and usage at the school was strictly controlled.

Sports
The following sports are offered to pupils of Tafelberg School:
 * Soccer

Past pupils
Brigitte Sarembock - Former girlfriend of cricketer Graeme Smith and niece of beauty queen Margaret Gardiner and former teacher at the school.