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Lacovia High School (COBY) is a government-owned, co-educational, first-to-sixth form, non-traditional, secondary school located in Lacovia in the parish of St Elizabeth, Jamaica. According to Go-Local Jamaica, an online branch of the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, Lacovia High has recently been noticed by the upper echelons of society.
Since the school is part of the LSU system, students are required to pay tuition. The school is located on the main campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, a center for the petrochemical industry and a major deep-water port. The school was designated a National Blue Ribbon School in 2015 and 2022. [2]
When the GSAT came into effect in 1999, many people praised it for its inclusiveness. It ushered a new era in primary and secondary education in Jamaica. Unlike the previous Common Entrance Examination, [12] the GSAT places almost all primary school students who sit the exams into a secondary institution or a junior high school. No sooner had ...
Jamaica High School was a four-year public high school in Jamaica, Queens, New York. It was operated by the New York City Department of Education . Jamaica High School was founded as the Union Free School in 1854, and located within a three-story wooden structure on what is now 161st Street.
Manning's School in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica, which started offering classes in 1738, is the oldest continuously operating high school in Jamaica. The school's motto is rendered in latin "Vita sine litteris mors est "its English translation being "Life without learning is death." There is often debate whether Manning's or Wolmer's ...
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]
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.
Wolmer's Schools, also referred to as Wolmer's Trust Group of Schools, is located in Kingston, Jamaica and currently consists of Wolmer's Pre-School, Wolmer's Preparatory School and two high schools: Wolmer's Trust High School for Boys and Wolmer's Trust High School for Girls. Both high schools are popular choices among Jamaican students taking ...