LATANYA Clayton from St Jude's Primary School, located in the inner-city community of Olympic Gardens, Kingston 11, is this year's top female GSAT performer in the entire island from any school type.
Clayton received an average of 99.6 per cent, after scoring 99 per cent in Mathematics, 100 in Science, 99 in Social Studies, 100 in Language Arts and 12/12 in Communication Tasks.
CLAYTON... poses with her trophies after beating the field in the GSAT. (PHOTO: NAPTHALI JUNIOR)
The top performing boy in the entire island from any school type is Mark Brown from Chetwood Memorial Primary in Montego Bay with an average of 99.4 per cent. He scored 99 per cent in Mathematics, 98 in Science, 100 in Social Studies, 100 in Language Arts and 12/12 in Communication Task.
The two are among 63 students who have been awarded scholarships for their excellent performance in the 2013 GSAT Examination by the Ministry of Education. They were chosen from a field of over 43,000 students who sat the examination in March.
Both students will be moving on to St Andrew High and Cornwall College respectively. And both will be receiving the ScotiaBank Foundation Shining Star Excellence Award valued at a total of $1,435,000 each and paid in equal instalments over seven years or $205,000 per annum.
The other scholarships are in the categories of the Marcus Garvey top boy from primary, all-age, or primary and junior high school; JAG Smith top girl from a primary, all-age or primary and junior high school; George William Gordon second placed female from a primary, all-age or primary & junior high school; Paul Bogle top girl from a primary, all- age, or primary & junior high school in St Thomas; ScotiaBank Foundation Shining Star County, top performer in each county from any school type; Government scholarships for both girls and boys; Aubrey Phillips Memorial (JTA) scholarship, the top performer in Manchester from a primary school; Tang GSAT Scholarship, highest performing student for Mathematics from each county from primary, all- age and primary and junior high schools; Petrojam Limited highest performing boy and girl from Greenwich All-Age; GAS Products Ltd top performing boy and girl from GAS Pro's list of schools (average above 55 per cent); Jamaica Energy Partners (JEP) Scholarships, 10 Top performing student in JEP's list of schools; Jamaica National Building Society Scholarship, top performer in each parish who has not already been awarded a scholarship; Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited, 14 scholarships awarded on merit to dependent children of eligible members of Health Schemes managed by Sagicor; and Horlicks highest performing student, one from each region (PATH recipient).
Forty-five of the 63 recipients are from primary or all-age schools compared to 18 from private schools.
Inner-city schools like Windward Road Primary and Junior High produced four of the scholarship winners, Greenwich All-Age in Kingston 13, two winners; Central Branch along Slipe Pen Road in Kingston produced three; Granville All-Age in Montego Bay, two; Jones Town Primary in Kingston 13, one; and Denham Town Primary in Kingston West, also one.
The top receiving school is Campion College with 15 students; St Andrew High with five; four to Morant Bay High; Immaculate Conception High, Kingston College and Cornwall College, three to Ardenne High, Montego Bay High, Wolmer's High School for Girls; two to Manchester High, Decarteret College and Holy Childhold High; while Bishop Gibson High, Westwood High, Glenmuir High, Manning's High, Herbert Morrison Technical High, Rusea's, Wolmer's Boys School, Vauxhall High, Dunoon Park Technical High, Calabar Primary and Jnr High and Infant, The Queen's School, and Calabar High all received one scholarship winner.
Education Minister Ronald Thwaites boasted that 35,000 students who sat the exam were placed in high schools, with 28,000 of the candidates being placed in the schools of their choice.
Females continue to outperform their male counterparts in the five areas tested. There has been a marginal drop in the performance of students in key testing areas in mathematics, science and communication tasks, although there were signs of improvement in Social Studies and Language Arts.
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Clayton received an average of 99.6 per cent, after scoring 99 per cent in Mathematics, 100 in Science, 99 in Social Studies, 100 in Language Arts and 12/12 in Communication Tasks.
CLAYTON... poses with her trophies after beating the field in the GSAT. (PHOTO: NAPTHALI JUNIOR)
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The top performing boy in the entire island from any school type is Mark Brown from Chetwood Memorial Primary in Montego Bay with an average of 99.4 per cent. He scored 99 per cent in Mathematics, 98 in Science, 100 in Social Studies, 100 in Language Arts and 12/12 in Communication Task.
The two are among 63 students who have been awarded scholarships for their excellent performance in the 2013 GSAT Examination by the Ministry of Education. They were chosen from a field of over 43,000 students who sat the examination in March.
Both students will be moving on to St Andrew High and Cornwall College respectively. And both will be receiving the ScotiaBank Foundation Shining Star Excellence Award valued at a total of $1,435,000 each and paid in equal instalments over seven years or $205,000 per annum.
The other scholarships are in the categories of the Marcus Garvey top boy from primary, all-age, or primary and junior high school; JAG Smith top girl from a primary, all-age or primary and junior high school; George William Gordon second placed female from a primary, all-age or primary & junior high school; Paul Bogle top girl from a primary, all- age, or primary & junior high school in St Thomas; ScotiaBank Foundation Shining Star County, top performer in each county from any school type; Government scholarships for both girls and boys; Aubrey Phillips Memorial (JTA) scholarship, the top performer in Manchester from a primary school; Tang GSAT Scholarship, highest performing student for Mathematics from each county from primary, all- age and primary and junior high schools; Petrojam Limited highest performing boy and girl from Greenwich All-Age; GAS Products Ltd top performing boy and girl from GAS Pro's list of schools (average above 55 per cent); Jamaica Energy Partners (JEP) Scholarships, 10 Top performing student in JEP's list of schools; Jamaica National Building Society Scholarship, top performer in each parish who has not already been awarded a scholarship; Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited, 14 scholarships awarded on merit to dependent children of eligible members of Health Schemes managed by Sagicor; and Horlicks highest performing student, one from each region (PATH recipient).
Forty-five of the 63 recipients are from primary or all-age schools compared to 18 from private schools.
Inner-city schools like Windward Road Primary and Junior High produced four of the scholarship winners, Greenwich All-Age in Kingston 13, two winners; Central Branch along Slipe Pen Road in Kingston produced three; Granville All-Age in Montego Bay, two; Jones Town Primary in Kingston 13, one; and Denham Town Primary in Kingston West, also one.
The top receiving school is Campion College with 15 students; St Andrew High with five; four to Morant Bay High; Immaculate Conception High, Kingston College and Cornwall College, three to Ardenne High, Montego Bay High, Wolmer's High School for Girls; two to Manchester High, Decarteret College and Holy Childhold High; while Bishop Gibson High, Westwood High, Glenmuir High, Manning's High, Herbert Morrison Technical High, Rusea's, Wolmer's Boys School, Vauxhall High, Dunoon Park Technical High, Calabar Primary and Jnr High and Infant, The Queen's School, and Calabar High all received one scholarship winner.
Education Minister Ronald Thwaites boasted that 35,000 students who sat the exam were placed in high schools, with 28,000 of the candidates being placed in the schools of their choice.
Females continue to outperform their male counterparts in the five areas tested. There has been a marginal drop in the performance of students in key testing areas in mathematics, science and communication tasks, although there were signs of improvement in Social Studies and Language Arts.
See related story: