Fairmont High School is a public English medium co-educational high school situated in the town of Durbanville in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
The school was officially opened on 5 September 1978 by P.S.
[1] Clive Wigg was the first principal [2] and remained headmaster until 2002, when he retired.
[3][4] The three school houses take their names from Sir Langham Dale, Sir James Rose Innes and Sir Thomas Muir, each having held the position of Superintendent-General of Education in the Cape.
In 2009, Fairmont was named as one of the top ten performing schools in mathematics and science in South Africa.