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Jamaica’s Promise – Kemps Hill High Celebrates CSEC Success

Produced By: Jayda Francis
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Director of Children and Family Programmes at the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), Warren Thompson (right), displays the cover of a story book to grade-two students at the Bamboo Primary and Junior High School in St. Ann during Read Across Jamaica Day on Tuesday (May 3). Mr. Thompson visited the institution as part of a school tour to promote the importance of child protection and the Agency’s 211 Child Abuse Reporting Hotline.

Jamaica’s Promise – Kemps Hill High Celebrates CSEC Success

Kemps Hill High School is among several secondary schools on the National School Learning and Intervention Plan (NSLIP) that recorded improved performance in the 2025 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) English and Mathematics examinations. In 2024 the school recorded a pass rate of 24% and 2.5% respectively in both subjects but according to principal Karen Charlton-Boothe after applying what the ministry describes as the ‘tactical approach’ those numbers grew affording them a pass rate of 56% in CSEC English and 31% in CSEC Math for 2025.

Presented by: Jayda Francis
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