The Girls High School is today celebrating, after having been announced the top performing school in the 2019 May/June 2019 Caribbean Examination Council Secondary Education Certificate Examinations (CSEC).
In a release issued yesterday, the Ministry of education said preliminary results show that Zuania Baptiste, Lonyé Browne and Adiah Holder topped this year’s C-SEC examinations.
Baptiste passed 14 subjects, obtaining 12 grade 1s and two grade 2s, Brown passed 15 subjects, obtaining 8 grade 1s, 6 grade 2s and 1 grade 3s, while Adiah Holder passed 14 subjects, with 13 grade 1s and one grade 2.
The GHS was also the nation’s overall top performer – registering a 96.9% pass rate, followed by St. Vincent Grammar School (SVGS), which registered 91.44%.
The Bequia Seventh-day Adventist High School, with 88.57%, St. Martin’s Secondary School, 87.7%, St. Joseph’s Convent (Kingstown), 84.35%, Mountain View Adventist Academy, 82.08% and St. Joseph’s Convent (Marriaqua) 80.71%. In addition, 11 schools obtained pass rates between 60% and 80%, which the Ministry of Education described as “creditable”.
The ministry said this year’s performance represents increases of 13.86 and 13.56 percentage points, respectively. This year, 2,478 candidates from SVG registered for the exams. The ministry said that this year, 15.62% of the passes were at grade 1 level, 38.53% at grade 2 and 45.85% at grade 3. Last year’s gures were 16.82%, 37.29% and 45.89%.
“The Ministry of Education congratulates all students and extends gratitude to the principals, teachers and staff at all schools for their support of the students.
