South East Port-of-Spain Secondary (SEPoS), located in the inner city crime hot spot of Nelson Street, is celebrating the results of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) with top performing schools in Port-of-Spain, central and east Trinidad.
“Pretty pleased” was how dean Roger Martin described the school’s results.
“We are now establishing the honour roll, the top performing students who got a number of ones, and it looks good,” Martin told the T&T Guardian yesterday.
He said they were unable to divulge further details since they were still tabulating the results but added that South East Port-of-Spain Secondary usually performs well every year.
Fr Gregory Augustine, principal of Fatima College, was also pleased with how his students fared in the CSEC and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam (CAPE).
“We did very well. We got 100 per cent passes in both CAPE and CSEC. I am generally pleased,” Augustine said.
Augustine said under 200 students at Fatima College wrote CAPE and around 140 wrote CSEC.
He said the school got 13 scholarships last year and he was hoping for “a little improvement” this year, modestly indicating he was expecting the number to increase.
In the east, Lakshmi Girls Hindu College principal, Sonia Mahase-Persad, and her teachers were also celebrating.
Mahase-Persad said the school had better grades this year and based on the numbers of ones students got, she was expecting a record number of scholarships this year. They got 29 scholarships last year.
“We have improved this year. Ninety-nine per cent of the 142 students who wrote the CSEC and all the 85 who wrote CAPE got full certificates.
“This was our best year in CAPE. We have also seen an increase in the number of students getting ones across the board,” she said.
Presentation College (Chaguanas) principal, Gary Ribeiro, was also celebrating.
“We did well, as Presentation normally does. Ninety-nine per cent of the 80 students who wrote the CSEC got five and more passes. Students did very good in the sciences. Ninety-eight per cent of the 75 students who wrote CAPE got full passes.”
Ribeiro said he was expecting a “happy scholarship this year” because of the outstanding performance of some students who got straight distinctions.
Preysal High, Couva, said yesterday they were unable to access the results from the school’s system because it was down and could not give information.
Other schools said no official was present to give information. Some said they were still tabulating the results and others preferred to wait until later in the week.
The Ministry of Education’s Communications Department said it was not authorised to make the results public yesterday and Minister Anthony Garcia could not be reached.