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The Manchester High School was established for the purpose of providing "a good middle class education" to boys and girls. [1] Since portions of the current parish of Manchester were a part of Vere, the funds from the Vere Trust, a result of charitable donations from several individuals, were used in 1855 to establish several institutions.
The school also set up a board of trustees to represent the different Protestant denominations. [1] It caters to secondary students and after 36 years reopened its sixth-form programme in 2014. Westwood is among the five boarding remaining in Jamaica and has been the only school to retain the tradition of wearing a jippi-jappa (Panama) hat. [2]
The Parish of Manchester is a parish located in west-central Jamaica, in the county of Middlesex. Its capital , Mandeville , is a major business centre. Its St. Paul of the Cross Pro-Cathedral is the episcopal see of the Latin Catholic Diocese of Mandeville .
This category provides a listing of secondary schools in Jamaica. Pages in category "High schools in Jamaica" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Knox College (The high school part of the Knox Complex of Schools) is a co-educational high school for both day pupils and boarders in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. The other institutions that form the complex are: the Neighbourhood Early Childhood Institute , Knox Junior School , and Knox Community College .
In 1925, the Deaconess Home School and the Deaconess Home High School for girls (founded 1913) amalgamated to become the Deaconess High School, starting with 90 students. In 1926, the Jamaica Schools Commission recommended that the school's name be changed. The name selected was St Hugh's High School.
The school was named after the Child Jesus, and was founded by the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help of Jamaica (FMS) in Jamaica. [3] Holy Childhood High began as a private school in 1937 with 8 pupils (3 boys 5 girls the boys were later transferred to St. George's College) housed in a building near Holy Cross Rectory ...
Jamaica College was founded in 1789, making it the sixth oldest continually running high school in the country, [citation needed] after Wolmer's Boys', one of the Wolmer's Schools (1729), Manning's School (1738), St. Jago High School (1744), Rusea's High School (1777) and Titchfield High School (1786). [6]