Jamaica’s All Island Secondary School Rankings – 2014
Many rural schools in Jamaica continue to perform admirably academically.
You might be surprised by the some of the schools that appear in the upper segment of this year’s rankings.
The ranking by EducateJamaica.org takes a look at each school and calculates what percentage of students they are turning out at the end of grade 11, with a minimum of 5 CSEC subjects (including Mathematics and/or English) and based on the percentage obtained, they are ranked.
The rankings are based on the CSEC results of 2013.
Schools ranked by Percentage (%) of grade 11 cohort attaining Five (5) subjects with English and/or Mathematics.
The all-island ranking shows the comparative performance of secondary schools across the entire island.
| Ranking | Name of school | Percentage (%) of grade 11 cohort attaining Five (5) subjects with English and/or Mathematics. |
| 1 | Immaculate Conception High | 100% |
| 2 | Campion College | 99.5% |
| 3 | St. Hilda’s Diocesan High | 98.84% |
| 4 | Hampton high | 97.7% |
| 5 | Mount Alvernia High | 97.66% |
| 6 | Wolmer’s Girls School | 96.9% |
| 7 | Westwood High | 95.21% |
| 8 | Glenmuir High | 95.14% |
| 9 | DeCarteret College | 94.4% |
| 10 | St. Andrew High School for Girls | 92.9% |
| 11 | Convent of Mercy Academy Alpha | 92% |
| 12 | Knox College | 91.8% |
| 13 | Montego Bay High | 89.61% |
| 14 | Morant Bay High | 88.4% |
| 15 | Wolmer’s Boys School | 88.1% |
| 16 | St. George’s College | 88% |
| 17 | Munro College | 87.7% |
| 18 | Holy Childhood High | 87.6% |
| 19 | Ardenne High | 86.6% |
| 20 | Merl Grove High | 83% |
| 21 | Mannings High | 82.7% |
| 22 | Bishop Gibson High | 81.5% |
| 23 | York Castle High | 79% |
| 24 | Meadowbrook High | 77.8% |
| 25 | The Queen’s High School | 77.6% |
| 26 | Manchester High | 77.5% |
| 27 | St. Hugh’s High | 75.9% |
| 28 | Kingston College | 70.3% |
| 29 | Clarendon College | 69.2% |
| 30 | Marymount High | 68% |
| 31 | St. Jago High | 60.7% |
| 32 | Charlemont High | 60.1% |
| 33 | St. Mary High | 60% |
| 34 | Jamaica College | 59% |
| 35 | Ferncourt High | 58.6% |
| 36 | Denbigh high | 57% |
| 37 | May Day High | 54.71% |
| 38 | Titchfield High | 54.5% |
| 39 | St. Catherine High | 53% |
| 40 | Annotto Bay High | 53% |
| 41 | Camperdown High | 50% |
| 42 | Gaynstead High | 49.4% |
| 43 | Cornwall College | 44.9% |
| 44 | Mona High | 44.7% |
| 45 | Calabar High | 43.8% |
| 46 | St. Mary’s College | 40.6% |
| 47 | St. Elizabeth Technical High | 39.4% |
| 48 | Rusea’s High | 37.1% |
| 49 | William Knibb Memorial High | 35.9% |
| 50 | Excelsior High | 35.7% |
| 51 | Jonathan Grant High | 34% |
| 52 | Guy’s Hill High | 33.6% |
| 53 | Dinthill Technical High | 31.4% |
| 54 | Frome Technical High | 31.33% |
| 55 | Oberlin High | 31.1% |
| 56 | Old Harbour High | 31% |
| 57 | Holland High School | 30.7% |
| 58 | Irwin High | 29% |
| 59 | Ocho Rios High | 27.1% |
| 60 | Mile Gully High | 27% |
| 61 | Black River High | 25.9% |
| 62 | Iona High | 25.8% |
| 63 | Papine High | 25.7% |
| 64 | St. Mary Technical High | 25.7% |
| 65 | Bridgeport High | 25.3% |
| 66 | Garvey Maceo High | 25.2% |
| 67 | Aabuthnott Gallimore High | 25.1% |
| 68 | Edwin Allen High | 23.2% |
| 69 | Green Island High | 22.6% |
| 70 | Anchovy High | 21.1% |
| 71 | Bellefield High | 19.9% |
| 72 | Herbert Morrison Technical High | 19.9% |
| 73 | St. Thomas Technical High | 17.8% |
| 74 | Happy Grove High | 17.7% |
| 75 | MacGrath High | 17.6% |
| 76 | Porus High | 17.5% |
| 77 | Holmwood Technical High | 16.5% |
| 78 | Spaldings High | 16.5% |
| 79 | Lennon High | 16.1% |
| 80 | Maggotty High | 15.8% |
| 81 | Green Pond High | 15.5% |
| 82 | Albert Town High | 15.4% |
| 83 | B. B. Coke High | 15.3% |
| 84 | Jose Marti Technical High | 14.9% |
| 85 | Belmont Academy | 14.8% |
| 86 | Seaforth High | 14.6% |
| 87 | Lacovia High | 14.4% |
| 88 | Claude McKay High | 14% |
| 89 | Buff Bay High | 13.6% |
| 90 | Kingston Technical High | 13.4% |
| 91 | Vere Technical High | 13.2% |
| 92 | Tacky High | 12.9% |
| 93 | Pembroke Hall | 12.7% |
| 94 | Merlene Ottey High | 12% |
| 95 | Port Antonio High | 11.58% |
| 96 | Cross Keys High | 11.3% |
| 97 | Troy High | 11.3% |
| 98 | Central High | 10.9% |
| 99 | Godfrey Stewart High | 10.8% |
| 100 | Cambridge High | 10.7% |
| 101 | Muschett High | 10.6% |
| 102 | Clan Carthy High | 10.3% |
| 103 | Brown’s Town High | 10.2% |
| 104 | Tarrant High | 10.2% |
| 105 | Kingston High | 10.1% |
| 106 | Oracabessa High | 10% |
| 107 | Spot Valley High | 9.5% |
| 108 | Winston Jones High | 9.4% |
| 109 | Vauxhall High | 9.2% |
| 110 | Waterford High | 9.1% |
| 111 | St. James High | 9% |
| 112 | Tivoli Gardens High | 9% |
| 113 | Maldon High | 8.8% |
| 114 | Norman Manley High | 8.8% |
| 115 | St. Andrew Technical High | 8.6% |
| 116 | Maud McLeod High | 8.3% |
| 117 | Edith Dalton James High | 8% |
| 118 | Marcus Garvey Technical High | 7.8% |
| 119 | Donald Quarrie High | 7.5% |
| 120 | Ascott High | 7.4% |
| 121 | Kemps Hill High | 7.1% |
| 122 | Charlie Smith High | 7% |
| 123 | Bog Walk High | 6.8% |
| 124 | Foga Road High | 6.7% |
| 125 | Petersfield High | 6.6% |
| 126 | Dunoon Park Technical High | 6.4% |
| 127 | Balaclava High | 6.1% |
| 128 | Rhodes Hall High | 6.1% |
| 129 | Mavis Bank High | 5.9% |
| 130 | Greater Portmore High | 5.8% |
| 131 | Lewisville High | 5.6% |
| 132 | Carron Hall High | 5.4% |
| 133 | Ewarton High | 5.4% |
| 134 | Kellits High | 5.4% |
| 135 | Newell High | 5.4% |
| 136 | Christiana High | 5.3% |
| 137 | Holy Trinity High | 5.3% |
| 138 | Yallahs High | 5.2% |
| 139 | Eltham High | 5.1% |
| 140 | Tacius Golding High | 5% |
| 141 | Little London High | 4.6% |
| 142 | Knockalva Technical High | 4.5% |
| 143 | Spanish Town High | 4.4% |
| 144 | Alston High | 3.8% |
| 145 | Bustamante High | 3.3% |
| 146 | Cedric Titus High | 3.3% |
| 147 | Thompson Town High | 3.1% |
| 148 | Brimmer Vale High | 3% |
| 149 | Fair Prospect High | 3% |
| 150 | Glengoffe High | 2.8% |
| 151 | Haile Selassie High | 2.7% |
| 152 | Islington High | 2.6% |
| 153 | Penwood High | 2.6% |
| 154 | Grange Hill High | 2.4% |
| 155 | Cumberland High | 2.2% |
| 156 | Hopewell High | 2% |
| 157 | Denham Town High | 1.7% |
| 158 | Paul Bogle High | 1.5% |
| 159 | Innswood High | 0.9% |
| 160 | Trench Town High | 0.8% |
| 161 | Robert Lightbourne High | 0% |
Source: EducateJamaica.org
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The article makes no sense. This statement “The rural schools in the top 10 were: Bishop Gibson High in Manchester, fourth; Hampton School in St Elizabeth, sixth; Munro College in St Elizabeth came seventh; Mt Alvernia High in St James, eighth; York Castle High in St Ann, ninth; and Glenmuir High in Clarendon, 10th.” Is woefully inaccurate, evidenced by the actual rankings below it.
gi d youth dem d ryte ting fi learn hidel a private school
This is so distressing. Schools are now only good for the traditional names that they bear.
Hey my alma mater is # 5 🙂
DC
The Ministry of Education is a part of the problem,theyre placing below average (reading level below grade 2) students in the newly upgraded high school, expecting them to sit exams in the next five yrs.
What happened to Dunoon High. Unless i overlooked it. It was not in the list or is it a private school?
what happen to sydney pagon technical?
steths tho….
well i guess 150 is better than 161………….lol
Oh Alvernia, Alverrniaa, we sing to youu ♪ We will be loyal to the glorious brown & blue ♫♪
the females are setting the trend
Beyond the 3Rs,a VALUE issue… This is the symptom of the lack of discipline, student safety, and the basic ethical breakdown in our schools….
It’s Hampton School, not Hampton High.
Under 60% need some intervention.
My alma mater #6. Proud Wolmerian
Congrats STETHS for being at the top for Technical High Schools; I know teachers there work very hard, though the top GSAT students are sent to to the schools up the Hill.
Mine is #152. I graduated with 8 at grades 1&2.
So proud of my alma MBHS! Cambridge we got some work to do! Every child can learn, every child must learn!
This is rubbish
Although my alma mater, Knox College has done reasonably well the big picture is extremely disappointing. Institutional strengthening involving community support is a national imperative to rescue our children and our nation from longterm social and economic mediocrity. I need to get back to the classroom.
The list started out rather well then around the top 25 it started to spiral down rapidly. Obviously a call for past students, especially the ones who care, and / or consider themselves successful in life to step up. Need to put some resources and / or finances into helping students achieve better pass rates. The Ministry of Education regardless of government in power is strapped for resources to help many schools. We cannot beat up on the teachers and this is a wake up call to get more involved.
Some of the student need to study and parent we need to help them too sometime they need us to do that teacher alone can’t do it we need to play our part
CC is at 43 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the purpose and importance of education is lacking …what can we do to correct this behaviour because obviously a BIG GIANT is affecting our schools
Again CXC was completed over the months of May/June is this data based on last year then
It is deplorable but have you taken a look at the behaviour of the students at a lot of these schools. I don’t believe it is an accurate assessment though. Remember that students have to be reccommended to sit these subjects. I have friends who had to register thier children privately to do CSEC and they got great passess. A lot of these schools are about quota and not students. For each of these schools how many students that should have taken exams were actually allowed to do so registering through the schools. Thank God for eveninng classess otherwise so many of our children would leave school without a subject to their name. SCHOOLS ARE MORE INVESTED IN QOUTA / STATISTICS THAN STUDENTS.
Do you realize that most of the top 10 schools are single sex schools – and they are mainly girls?
I saw another ranking earlier that ranked Campion #1, Immaculate #7, Westwood #8 etc…I am not sure which one is correct as they are supposedly reporting “Schools ranked by Percentage (%) of grade 11 cohort attaining Five (5) subjects with English and/or Mathematics”.
rayyy alphurr mi skl
GLENMUIR HI FI LIFE!!!!!!!!!! all u ppl out there, there it is Glenmuir hi is still at tha top at clarendon
teachers an parents need to play a more active role its not about the building,,, its about the students,,, they are what made up the school
This is hilarious. ..r shool system is a joke…we put effort to who get good averages in passes…but yet r society is crying for help…I wonder why????
Ardennes you lovely no.19. We will get back to under 10
St. Hilda’s though was rough on me being there, it is nice to see that it has done well.
When parents assist students at home these students will advance. Visit your children,s school. Talk with the teachers and let your children know that you are working with the school,s programme.
Kinda disappointed. Holy Childhood High School was in the top 10. 87% is good but not great. Come on ladies we can do much better
I love z way some schools are making a name for themselves,no more name BRAND, skill teachers should go 2 every school
I love z way some schools are making a name for themselves,no more name BRAND, skill teachers should go 2 every school
wow the girls schools are mashing it up!!! Congratulations!!!!
We all know how hard it is to deal with some of these irrelevant educational infrastructure but at the end of the day it all boils down to what these students aspire,and quite frankly some just don’t put the effort. if we as pass students can make it so can they,it doesn’t make a difference what the government do if these students don’t put in the effort regardless of status,finance or background. help will be given if they deserve it cause god will make a way some how.
you know, ranking of schools is just ridiculous, what i realized is that many children attend evening class at schools they would’nt attend in the days and in the end got very good grades in the cgsec exam and yet the schools that they originally attend gets the credit in the end in the so-call school ranking
A big farce!
This is not a good benchmark of the performance of schools. What is the qualifying grade for students who are strategically placed at Immaculate? Well, it is high 90s to 100. What type of homes are these students from? Is it very supportive to their education? Can they afford three good meals per day? Do they a good support structure at home. Can their parents afford extra classes and computers in the home? Why then would it be a surprise that all students who sat the exam passed five (5) or more subjects? Any child that comes to an high school with an average of 100% or there about, hardly needs a teacher and only needs guidance.
Now take a school that gets students with averages such as 50% and below and are from challenging economic and social backgrounds.These students might not be able to buy all textbooks, afford extra classes, and live in unstable homes and communities where studying is difficult. If through the sweat and sacrifice of teachers, it is able to have 50% of all students graduate with 5 or more subjects, does this mean that Immaculate is a better school? If you are fair, we still can not tell at this point, but on the face of it, the school that got students at 50% and below appears to have achieved more.
The concept here people is one of “value added”. This is looking at the grades and ability of students when they enter an institution compared with their performance levels when they exit. Now, this is how you find out which schools are good or not. This is how you find out which teachers need to be let go. How would the table change if you use value added? Would Immaculate still be at the top?
It is time Jamaicans stop thinking like Third World and stare to think first world. This survey is simply pondering to the rich.
Emancipate yourself!!!
Written by former teacher in Jamaica, U.K. and now at Boston Uni. Yes I wrote this from the heart before hurrying to my class. Make corrections as you see them.
it is evident that the schools are failing the children cause out of 161 only 41 schools have over 50% of students passing the core subjects
St.Hilda’s Diocesan High School always shining
Very proud of my alma mater St.Catherine High! We ranked ahead of some so-called “big name” school like Calabar, Camperdown, Excelsior and Ruseas. Prayer and work conquer All!
Find out what the girls schools are doing and replicate it.
bwoy, how cemes i dont see my school?
Yes Hampton: )
#128. Rhodes Hall High School opened its doors in 2006 to students of mixed-abilities. Now we are #128 improving every year, doing better than even some “traditional high schools”.
I would like to see a different ranking between full day schools and shift system schools. One should not rank apples with pears. So unfair. Then too, some schools send every child to sit the exam., while others blocked the lower streams. Can I say unfair ranking?
Couple things are clear – The women school are dominant, the legacy secondary schools are far behind the legacy high school. Just renaming a secondary a high school does not make the comparable.
This is one metric to compare the schools across the island. They are many other methods that could have been used, this is not ends all, be all. But I would suggest regards of the methodology, Jamaicans school have a long way to go. I was an average student St. Catherine in 1988, and I was a superstar at the school I attended in the US. I tell you what Jamaicans schools are not as bad as we think, especially with the limited resources in comparison to US school.
this is sad, we need to look beyond just the falling of some traditional schools, but at the schools thats no way near average. our system, the mentality and attitude of parents and children need some serious adjustment for us to develop any positive change.
Glenmuir for life, love my alma mater
It’s not Hampton High…
Glenmuir big up
My Alma Mater is still # 1 – greatest Institution ever and STGC too lol 🙂 love these 2 schools
May Day High School Jamaica still the 4th in Manchester
mi shame…
I feel so bad abt Godfrey thought they were up there….
sad to know tht am attending tht school
MBHS #14 nurturing great minds since 1961
A little critical thinking here…….. If this report is accurate, do you realize that only 39% of 11th graders ‘passed'(5 or more) O-levels in 2014? We have work to do.
Oh Alvernia, Alverrniaa, we sing to youu ♪ We will be loyal to the glorious brown & blue ♫♪
The Ministry of Education is a part of the problem,theyre placing below average (reading level below grade 2) students in the newly upgraded high school, expecting them to sit exams in the next five yrs.
This is one metric to compare the schools across the island. They are many other methods that could have been used, this is not ends all, be all. But I would suggest regards of the methodology, Jamaicans school have a long way to go. I was an average student St. Catherine in 1988, and I was a superstar at the school I attended in the US. I tell you what Jamaicans schools are not as bad as we think, especially with the limited resources in comparison to US school.
Find out what the girls schools are doing and replicate it.
Very proud of my alma mater St.Catherine High! We ranked ahead of some so-called “big name” school like Calabar, Camperdown, Excelsior and Ruseas. Prayer and work conquer All!
the females are setting the trend
I feel so bad abt Godfrey thought they were up there….
sad to know tht am attending tht school
mi shame…
Although my alma mater, Knox College has done reasonably well the big picture is extremely disappointing. Institutional strengthening involving community support is a national imperative to rescue our children and our nation from longterm social and economic mediocrity. I need to get back to the classroom.
This is so distressing. Schools are now only good for the traditional names that they bear.
May Day High School Jamaica still the 4th in Manchester
Hey my alma mater is # 5 🙂
this is sad, we need to look beyond just the falling of some traditional schools, but at the schools thats no way near average. our system, the mentality and attitude of parents and children need some serious adjustment for us to develop any positive change.
I would like to see a different ranking between full day schools and shift system schools. One should not rank apples with pears. So unfair. Then too, some schools send every child to sit the exam., while others blocked the lower streams. Can I say unfair ranking?
My Alma Mater is still # 1 – greatest Institution ever and STGC too lol 🙂 love these 2 schools
Couple things are clear – The women school are dominant, the legacy secondary schools are far behind the legacy high school. Just renaming a secondary a high school does not make the comparable.
Glenmuir for life, love my alma mater
It’s not Hampton High…
Glenmuir big up
#128. Rhodes Hall High School opened its doors in 2006 to students of mixed-abilities. Now we are #128 improving every year, doing better than even some “traditional high schools”.
bwoy, how cemes i dont see my school?
Yes Hampton: )
St.Hilda’s Diocesan High School always shining
you know, ranking of schools is just ridiculous, what i realized is that many children attend evening class at schools they would’nt attend in the days and in the end got very good grades in the cgsec exam and yet the schools that they originally attend gets the credit in the end in the so-call school ranking
The list started out rather well then around the top 25 it started to spiral down rapidly. Obviously a call for past students, especially the ones who care, and / or consider themselves successful in life to step up. Need to put some resources and / or finances into helping students achieve better pass rates. The Ministry of Education regardless of government in power is strapped for resources to help many schools. We cannot beat up on the teachers and this is a wake up call to get more involved.
When parents assist students at home these students will advance. Visit your children,s school. Talk with the teachers and let your children know that you are working with the school,s programme.
It is deplorable but have you taken a look at the behaviour of the students at a lot of these schools. I don’t believe it is an accurate assessment though. Remember that students have to be reccommended to sit these subjects. I have friends who had to register thier children privately to do CSEC and they got great passess. A lot of these schools are about quota and not students. For each of these schools how many students that should have taken exams were actually allowed to do so registering through the schools. Thank God for eveninng classess otherwise so many of our children would leave school without a subject to their name. SCHOOLS ARE MORE INVESTED IN QOUTA / STATISTICS THAN STUDENTS.
GLENMUIR HI FI LIFE!!!!!!!!!! all u ppl out there, there it is Glenmuir hi is still at tha top at clarendon
Congrats STETHS for being at the top for Technical High Schools; I know teachers there work very hard, though the top GSAT students are sent to to the schools up the Hill.
It’s Hampton School, not Hampton High.
Again CXC was completed over the months of May/June is this data based on last year then
So proud of my alma MBHS! Cambridge we got some work to do! Every child can learn, every child must learn!
Under 60% need some intervention.
well i guess 150 is better than 161………….lol
gi d youth dem d ryte ting fi learn hidel a private school
DC
I saw another ranking earlier that ranked Campion #1, Immaculate #7, Westwood #8 etc…I am not sure which one is correct as they are supposedly reporting “Schools ranked by Percentage (%) of grade 11 cohort attaining Five (5) subjects with English and/or Mathematics”.
CC is at 43 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the purpose and importance of education is lacking …what can we do to correct this behaviour because obviously a BIG GIANT is affecting our schools
Do you realize that most of the top 10 schools are single sex schools – and they are mainly girls?
Beyond the 3Rs,a VALUE issue… This is the symptom of the lack of discipline, student safety, and the basic ethical breakdown in our schools….
rayyy alphurr mi skl
Mine is #152. I graduated with 8 at grades 1&2.
My alma mater #6. Proud Wolmerian
This is rubbish
MBHS #14 nurturing great minds since 1961
it is evident that the schools are failing the children cause out of 161 only 41 schools have over 50% of students passing the core subjects
We all know how hard it is to deal with some of these irrelevant educational infrastructure but at the end of the day it all boils down to what these students aspire,and quite frankly some just don’t put the effort. if we as pass students can make it so can they,it doesn’t make a difference what the government do if these students don’t put in the effort regardless of status,finance or background. help will be given if they deserve it cause god will make a way some how.
wow the girls schools are mashing it up!!! Congratulations!!!!
I love z way some schools are making a name for themselves,no more name BRAND, skill teachers should go 2 every school
Kinda disappointed. Holy Childhood High School was in the top 10. 87% is good but not great. Come on ladies we can do much better
St. Hilda’s though was rough on me being there, it is nice to see that it has done well.
This is hilarious. ..r shool system is a joke…we put effort to who get good averages in passes…but yet r society is crying for help…I wonder why????
Ardennes you lovely no.19. We will get back to under 10
KC needs to step up. Only top ten is good enough. Fortis!
KC needs to step up. Only top ten is good enough. Fortis!
teachers an parents need to play a more active role its not about the building,,, its about the students,,, they are what made up the school
teachers an parents need to play a more active role its not about the building,,, its about the students,,, they are what made up the school
This statistics would eliminate all students who pass 4 subjects including math and english. .. Is the polulation all grade 11 students or grade 11 students who took 5 or more subjects?… Is this a true reflection? Statistics can sometimes tell half truths.
christana high
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steths tho….
what happen to sydney pagon technical?
I must say I’m a proud pass student of Yallahs High school. Today I’m a nurse manager at at great hospital in Canada my foundation learning was right at the that school. Teachers like Miss Cooper, Mr Miller go the extra mile for their students. At the end of the day the school is just at to building, it’s the students that’s make a difference.
This is no accurate.
Wow so why not try and make all schools on the same level!!!! More equality or is it based on the areas so the children who go to certain schools have a more difficult time! Most are also based on their tradition and it’s prob not true right now
St jago what you doing so far down.seems like only the girls interested in academics.
Mount alvernia is the school am going now. Hurray for mount alvernia.
bwoy, how cemes i dont see my school?
Well of course no doubt or questioning my school is and has always been at number 1. We haven’t decided to give other schools a chance yet and i think we’ll never by the way.