TABLE 1.

Profile of selected schools.

School	Quintile†	HCT taken place at school	Home language	Racial groups‡
A	1	No	Xhosa	Black
B	2	Yes	Xhosa	Black
C	3	Yes	Xhosa	Black
D	4	Yes	English/Afrikaans	Mixed race
E	5	Yes	English	Black, mixed race
F	5	Yes	English	White, black, mixed race, Indian

HCT, HIV counselling and testing.

†, The South African Department of Education classifies schools according to relative poverty in five categories called quintiles. The quintile score is based on the national census data of the school catchment area and depends on income, unemployment rate and level of education. Schools from the poorest catchment areas are in quintile one, and from the least poor in quintile five.

‡, During the apartheid era, the South African government classified people into four major racial groups (black/African, mixed race, Indian/Asian and white/European). Post apartheid, many South Africans still identify themselves and others according to these groups.