St. Vincent Girls' High School is a secondary education facility opened in Kingstown on the island of St. Vincent in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The school was founded by Mary L. Ince in 1911 at the corner of Linley and Tyrell Street in Kingstown. In 1914, the government took over operation of the school and made Ince the headmistress. The following year, students began participating for the first time in the Cambridge Examinations.[1] By 1918, the school had a staff of 3 teachers and 16 students and functioned as a secondary school for middle-class pupils, who were able to afford the £6 per year fee, as elites could afford to send their children to Barbados or Britain for higher education.[2] In 1935, the school relocated to its present location on Murray Road in Kingstown to a site known as the Judges Lodge.[1] The school's students consistently rank highly in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations, with pass rates over 95%. In every year since 2000, the school has had the highest rate of students passing the examination in the country.[3][4][5]
| St Vincent Girls' High School | |
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 Crest of St Vincent Girls' High School | |
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Murray Road, Kingstown Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | |
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| Type | Public Secondary School |
| Motto | Latin: Per Ardua Ad Alta (Through Difficulty to Heights) |
| Established | May 8, 1911 |
| Headmistress | C. Latoya Deroche-John |
| Staff | 58 |
| Gender | Female |
| Age range | 10 - 18 |
| Number of students | 692 |
| Language | English |
| Hours in school day | 8 |
| Classrooms | 25 |
| Colour(s) | Blue and White |
| Website | svghs |
The original school colors were green and brown and the students wore uniforms consisting of a long-sleeved sailor-collared shirt with a brown and green tie. Heads were covered with a wide brimmed Panama hat which had a green hatband. In 1934, the required dress was changed to the present uniform, a white shirt over a navy skirt worn with a blue and silver tie. The curricula includes English and French language studies, geography, mathematics and physical education,[6] with a variety of humanities and technical skills courses, and study in both the social and natural sciences.[7] There are active alumni organizations in New York State in the U.S. and Toronto, Canada, which regularly host events and make donations to their alma mater.[8][9]
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- Spence, Omesha (30 April 2010). "Girls' High School days were happy, happy days for Olive Pollard". Kingstown, St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: The Searchlight. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- "2013 CSEC: The results are in!". Kingstown, St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: The Vincentian. 2013. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- "Build on examination results for national development". Kingstown, St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: The Vincentian. 26 August 2016. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- "Curriculum". SVGHS. Kingstown, St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Saint Vincent Girls' High School. 2009. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- "GHS Centennial Celebration". GHSAA. Brooklyn, New York: The Girls High School Alumnae Association (GHS) of St. Vincent and the Grenadines—The New York Chapter. 25 April 2013. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- "GHS still number one in CSEC". Kingstown, St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: The Vincentian. 16 August 2012. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- "GHS Toronto Alumnae donates to Alma Mater". Kingstown, St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: The Vincentian. 25 April 2014. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- "The Girls' High School's CSEC Performance 2014". Kingstown, St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: The Vincentian. September 2014. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- "Our History". SVGHS. Kingstown, St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Saint Vincent Girls' High School. 2011. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2017.