Cosmo City Primary No 1 School is a public primary school in Cosmo City, Randburg, listed by the Department of Basic Education under national EMIS number 700400178. The school itself publishes no website and no direct telephone number through any official channel, so this page gives the verified departmental routes that do reach it, and sets out how to tell it apart from the eight other schools in the same suburb.
Official contact channels
No official source publishes a switchboard number for this school. Several school directory sites list numbers for it, but those sites copy from one another and their numbers are frequently years out of date, so none is reproduced here. The routes below are published by the departments themselves.
- Gauteng Department of Education switchboard: 011 355 0000
- Gauteng Department of Education toll-free hotline: 0800 000 789
- District office: Johannesburg North – this is the district recorded for the school on the departmental list, and the office that handles placement, transfers and complaints for it.
- National Department of Basic Education: 012 357 3000, toll-free 0800 202 933, email [email protected]
Quote the EMIS number 700400178 when you call. Because several Cosmo City schools have near-identical names, the EMIS number is the only way to be certain a district clerk is looking at the right record.
What this organisation provides
- A public ordinary school offering the primary phase, from Grade R or Grade 1 through Grade 7.
- No-fee status: the school is quintile 1, the poorest of the five national funding bands, and appears on the Gauteng no-fee schools list for 2026.
- Because it is a no-fee school, it may not charge compulsory school fees at all. There is no fee exemption application to make, and no learner may be refused admission, denied a report or excluded from an activity over money.
- Enrolment recorded for 2026: 2 171 learners, which makes it a large primary school by national standards.
Address and operating information
- Address on the departmental list: 2631, Angola Avenue, Cosmo City, Randburg, Johannesburg, 2194
- Education district: Johannesburg North
The single most common mistake with this school is contacting the wrong one. Nine schools appear on the departmental list at Cosmo City addresses, and two of the primaries sit on adjacent stands in the same street:
- Cosmo City Primary No 1 School – EMIS 700400178, 2631 Angola Avenue, primary, 2 171 learners.
- Cosmo City Junior Primary School – EMIS 700400179, 2632 Angola Avenue, primary, 2 651 learners. A separate school, next door, with its own EMIS record.
- Cosmo City West Primary School – EMIS 700400212, 3760 Equador Drive, primary.
- Cosmo City Secondary School – EMIS 700400180, 2322 Angola and Kenya, secondary.
- Cosmo City Secondary School No. 2 – EMIS 700401295, 8149 Ukraine Avenue, Cosmo City Extension 7, secondary.
- Four further Cosmo City schools carry unrelated names: Blue Eagle High School (1291 Tanzania), Far North Secondary School (8151 South Africa Road), Sgodiphola Secondary School (7355 Central African Road) and Tirisano-Mmogo Junior Secondary School (3759 corner Brazil and Ecuador).
All nine fall under the Johannesburg North district and all are quintile 1 no-fee schools. School office hours are not published departmentally; district offices work standard weekday hours during term time and are largely unstaffed over the school holidays.
Support and escalation routes
- Admissions run through the Gauteng online application system on a fixed annual cycle, not at the school gate. Applying late, rather than a school being full, is the usual reason a placement fails.
- An unplaced learner is the district office’s responsibility, not the school’s. If no school has offered a place, escalate to Johannesburg North district rather than queueing at individual schools.
- Complaints follow a set order: the principal first, then the School Governing Body, then the Johannesburg North district office, then the provincial department on 0800 000 789.
- Corporal punishment or assault is a criminal matter. Report it to the South African Police Service on 10111 as well as to the district; it is not something to be settled internally by the school.
- Fee demands at a no-fee school should be reported to the district office, since the school has no legal basis for charging compulsory fees.
Sources
- Department of Basic Education, Gauteng No Fee Schools 2026 list, education.gov.za – school name, EMIS number, phase, street address, education district, quintile and 2026 learner numbers for all nine Cosmo City schools.
- Gauteng Department of Education and national Department of Basic Education published switchboard and hotline numbers, read on gov.za.