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Primary education in Jamaica addresses the basic educational needs of students and prepares them for secondary education. It includes children between the ages of 5 and 12 years. Under the Caribbean Examination Council's Revised Primary Curriculum, [ 3 ] student assessment has changed significantly from the former Common Entrance Examination at ...
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. The school has outperformed a number of other well-known similar institutions, with some students sitting CXC and CSEC exams passing in as many as ten subjects.
In 1926, the Jamaica Schools Commission recommended that the school's name be changed. The name selected was St Hugh's High School. St Hugh's College, Oxford, England, was the alma mater of Miss Evelyn Stopford who became principal in 1926. [4] [5]
The students after passing the 10th year of education from Board of Secondary Education examination (BSEE) OR Secondary School Certificate (SSC) often called out matriculate. The 11th and 12th years of education classes mostly held in Higher Secondary Schools or at Colleges situated in the jurisdiction of the Board Of Intermediate Education (BIE).
Ardenne High School is a coeducational, first-to-sixth form secondary school located in St. Andrew, Jamaica.The institution is best known for its high academic standards, among the highest in the Caribbean, [1] and for its achievements in the performing arts and several sports.
5) Quebec Lodge: The original name for the area which the Wolmer’s Schools currently inhabit. It was the site for the Jamaica Exhibition that was held in Jamaica in 1891. The high schools were relocated to these lands in 1909, after the destruction of the buildings at Church Street, in the 1907 earthquake.
St Andrew High School was founded on September 21, 1925, [4] through a partnership between the Presbyterian Church and the Wesleyan Synod of Jamaica. [5] A fund of £6,000 was initially established to found the Jamaica High School for Girls, a fee-paying institution.
Montego Bay High School was established in 1935 by the Government of Jamaica to fill the need of an all-girls high school in St. James. It was the first government-owned high school for girls established in the country. The school is owned by the Ministry of Education and administered by a local Board of Management.