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Grade 3: Assessment tests in Math and Language Arts; Grade 4: Literacy and Numeracy Tests; Grade 6: Achievement Test (GSAT): in Math, Language Arts, Social Studies (Civic Studies, Geography and History), Science and Communication Task; The six years of primary school education in Jamaica is compulsory and comes with many costs associated with it.
Wolmer's is the second-oldest high school in the Caribbean, having been established in 1729 by John Wolmer, a goldsmith, who bequeathed £2,360 for the establishment of a Free School. However, it did not come into existence until 1736, when the Wolmer's Trust was set up. [3]
Ascot High School was founded in Jamaica in September 1.1997 with 1440 dedicated and hard-working students and one first form students and a faculty of 40 prominent teachers that will dedicate their life of teaching these ascot students, The new school opened its doors, and the first lessons were given that day in a pavilion and in the newly ...
Northern Caribbean University is the oldest private tertiary institution in Jamaica, and was first known as West Indian Training School. It began with 8 students in 1907, as an institution offering courses only up to the twelfth grade. Following a temporary closure in 1913 it resumed operations in 1919. In 1936 it was renamed West Indian ...
Kingston College was founded in 1925 by Bishop of Jamaica, Dr. G.F.C. DeCarteret with Bishop Percival Gibson as the first headmaster. The school was envisioned as a remedy for the social deformity in which poor black boys were allowed primary education only. The school, Kingston College, was created primarily to provide poor black boys, who ...
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).
1935–1955. 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.
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. Today the school is located at 9 Skibo Avenue Kingston 10, Jamaica, West Indies. The school is operated by the Ministry of Education in Jamaica and receives ...