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The ten schools with the highest Quality Scores for Mathematics in 2013 were:
Campion College
3671
Immaculate Conception
2793
Ardenne High
2419
Wolmers Girls School
2382
Glenmuir High
2192
St. Andrew High School for Girls 2158
Wolmer’s Boys School
2081
Montego Bay High
2064
Westwood High
1971
St. Hilda’s High
1702
Noticeably, traditional secondary schools received higher Quality Scores than their “upgraded”,
“technical”, or “new” counterparts. This is laudable, however it may go without saying that those are the same
schools that usually enroll students who scored highest on the GSAT exams…ergo, while justifiably being
recognized for the high-caliber students they produce, these schools seem merely to perpetuate the academic
track that many of these students were already embarked upon.
Or, as written by Dr. Alfred Sangster (The Gleaner June 2, 2013) “By default, the upgraded high
schools, with fewer resources, have the Herculean task of dealing with poor performances, and their scores
record this reality…[whereas] technical high schools suffer from a disadvantage in the school placement
system.” Bearing in mind the exclusivity of each type of schools’
eidos
, as highlighted by Dr. Sangster, this
latest report also incorporates a segmented grading system, broken down by type of school. ‘Traditional’,
‘Upgraded’, ‘Technical’, and ‘New’ secondary schools were delineated into quintiles on the basis of the three-
year average for this quality scores, and each quintile was afforded a grade of either A, B, C, D, or UG
(ungraded).