Meanwhile, Nationwide News has obtained a list of the schools assessed by the National Education Inspectorate, NEI, in its latest round of inspection.
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It shows the continuing dismal performance of many public primary and secondary institutions.
The poor performance of many of the country’s secondary schools is well known. And based on the latest inspection of the NEI, primary schools are doing even worse.
But amid the generally poor performances, there’re a few schools that have been classified as ‘good’ or ’emerging good’.
129 schools were assessed in the latest round of inspection between September last year and March this year.
The majority of them, 78 to be precise, are rated as ‘unsatisfactory’ performers. That’s 60-percent of them failing to meet minimum standards.
Forty-six are deemed ‘satisfactory’. That’s approximately 37-percent of the 129 assessed.
Nationwide News received from the Education Ministry yesterday evening the names of the schools inspected in the latest evaluation, after making a request.
The NEI chose not to identify them this time, as is customary, in the full report tabled in the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
The list shows that only four schools were rated as ‘good’ performers. They are Ardenne High, St. George’s College and York Castle High in St. Ann. The fourth is Rousseau Primary, in St. Andrew.
Rousseau Primary is the only shining star in a bunch of otherwise mediocre or ineffective primary schools.
In late August, Education Minister, Ronald Thwaites, lamented the generally poor performance of primary schools.
The NEI says one primary school – Wanstead Primary and Infant, located in St. Catherine – ‘needs immediate support’. That means it’s failing badly.
115 of the schools inspected by the NEI are primary schools. Only 14 were secondary schools.
Apart from the three secondary schools classified as ‘good’, one other was rated as performing satisfactorily. That’s Dinthill Technical High, in St. Catherine.
The other ten secondary schools are ‘unsatisfactory. They’re Bustamante High, Claude Mckay High, Gaynstead High, Iona High, Kemps Hill High, Lennon High, May Day High, Penwood High, Tivoli Gardens High and Winston Jones High.
No school inspected by the NEI in its latest round has been rated ‘excellent’. That’s the highest ranking a school can be assigned.
Amid, the generally poor or mediocre performances, the Chief Inspector of the NEI, has named some schools as ’emerging good’.
Those are Aboukir Primary, Barton’s Primary, Kellits Primary, Manning’s Hill Primary and Marlie Hill Primary.
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