Overview

Ratu Kadavulevu School now has a student population of 625 : multiracial, co-educational and multi-streamed. It has an academic stream, and a vocational stream made up of a building and carpentry section, and an automotive engineering section. A number of other vocational courses had been unfortunately dropped due to lack of facilities and staffing. This school is the biggest boarding school in the country with a predominantly Fijian student population. The facilities in the school cannot cater for the school's expansion in the student population, areas of study and staffing. The classrooms and dormitories are literally breaking at the seams; the dormitories being the worse of the two where students still occupy sixty year old wooden structures and the old army barracks of World War Two.

In spite of these inadequacies, the staff, students and friends of the school (parents and old students) continue to make do with what are available to achieve excellence academically, in sports and in related cultural and leisure activities.

After twenty years of dormancy, the school reactivated in 1988 its Cadet Corps with four companies, each with three platoons. The lower forms (1-3) take their school uniforms and the school wishes to provide both uniforms as soon as possible. This is a combined project now.

Ratu Kadavulevu School has come a long way. The name itself bears greatness. What Ratu Penaia Kadavulecu foresaw then has begun to materialize to prepare boys as men to face up to the rigours and challenges of time and change. With the same view the school and the Nation as a whole must take up the challenge and prepare for the future as nation builders.