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As of 2003, the school attendance rate was 92% and the literacy rate was 95.5%. [1] The government fully operates 158 of the 210 primary and secondary schools in the Bahamas. [1] The other 55 schools are privately operated. [1] Enrollment for state primary and secondary schools is 50,332, with more than 16,000 students attending private schools ...
Government High School became the Bahamas' first state school when it opened on 27 April 1925, [1] providing for the education of blacks and girls who had been excluded from the colony's private schools. [4] The school was established as a result of concerted public lobbying. [5]
Queen's College was the successor to the Bahamas Wesleyan Propriety Institution, [citation needed] which had opened in 1871. Queen's College opened on 6 January 1890 [2] [3] after a committee had been formed to establish the school and Victoria Hall was built to house the new school. [2]
Nassau had a population of 128,420 females and 117,909 males and was home to 70,222 households with an average family size of 3.5 according to the 2010 census. [19] Nassau's large population in relation to the remainder of the Bahamas is the result of waves of immigration from the Family Islands to the capital. Consequently, this has led to the ...
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St Andrew's International School is an international IB primary and secondary school in Nassau, Bahamas. The school enrolls approximately 400 students from Preschool to Grade 12, of whom around 75% are Bahamian .
Name Took office Left office Notes Godfrey Kelly: 1964 1967 [1] [2]Arthur D. Hanna: 1967 1968 [1] [2]Cecil Wallace-Whitfield: 1968 1970 [1] [2]Carlton Francis: 1970 1972
Kingsway Academy traces its origins to 1957 when Canadian missionary Ernest Tatham envisioned a Christian school in Nassau. [1] His daughter, Ruth had established the Jack and Jill Nursery School on Dowdeswell Street and, in 1958, Tatham established a primary school behind the nursery school, [2] which he called the Charles Tatham Memorial School, named after his father, Charles Goodeve Tatham.