{"id":2132,"date":"2026-08-16T05:19:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/schools\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:55:44","slug":"schools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2132\" class=\"elementor elementor-2132 elementor-bc-flex-widget\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-wtsec0 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"wtsec0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-wtcol0\" data-id=\"wtcol0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wthtml0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"wthtml0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style id=\"wt-page\">\n@import url(\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Cinzel:wght@600&family=EB+Garamond:ital,wght@0,400;0,600;1,400&family=Inter:wght@400;500;600&display=swap\");\n.wt-page { --maroon:#5C0E14; 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Prep, on Connolley Avenue, is private.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"status\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"How the schools are run\">\n      <article class=\"status-card ministry\">\n        <p class=\"status-kicker\">Girls and Boys<\/p>\n        <h2>Ministry schools<\/h2>\n        <p>Wolmer\u2019s Trust High School for Girls and Wolmer\u2019s Trust High School for Boys are ministry schools. The Ministry of Education has charge of them. The Trust has oversight and aspects of their management.<\/p>\n      <\/article>\n      <article class=\"status-card private\">\n        <p class=\"status-kicker\">Prep<\/p>\n        <h2>Private<\/h2>\n        <p>Wolmer\u2019s Preparatory, Learning and Enrichment Centre is a private preparatory school.<\/p>\n      <\/article>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <article class=\"block\">\n      <div class=\"media\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wps-campus-about.jpg\" alt=\"Wolmer\u2019s Preparatory, Learning and Enrichment Centre. Photograph as published on the Prep site.\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"pad\">\n        <small>Private \u00b7 Preparatory \u00b7 Learning and Enrichment \u00b7 from 1941<\/small>\n        <h3>Wolmer\u2019s Preparatory, Learning and Enrichment Centre<\/h3>\n        <p>Wolmer\u2019s Preparatory, Learning and Enrichment Centre sits at 10 Connolley Avenue, Kingston 4 \u2014 the Cavaliers site it has occupied since the 1960s. Miss Skempton, then headmistress of Wolmer\u2019s Trust High School for Girls, opened it on 16 September 1941 with six little girls, as a feeder for the girls\u2019 school. Boys have been admitted since 1957. A pre-school followed in September 1993, from age two.<\/p>\n        <p>The Learning and Enrichment Centre is what sets the Prep apart. A Special Education Department opened in September 2004; the Centre itself in September 2011 \u2014 support for children with diagnosed learning differences, and enrichment, inside the same school rather than bolted on next door. Work is one-to-one and in small groups, with individual plans, and the aim of returning children to the mainstream with as little scaffolding as they need.<\/p>\n        <p>On the same campus: a multi-purpose court, two fields, a dance studio, music room, science lab, art room, hall, library, maker space, and a sick bay with a full-time registered nurse. It shares swimming, and a cricket and track field, with Wolmer\u2019s Trust High School for Girls.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"chips\">\n          <span class=\"chip\">Private<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Learning &amp; Enrichment Centre<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Special Education since 2004<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Pre-school from 1993<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Multi-purpose court<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Two fields<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Shared pool<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Dance \u00b7 music \u00b7 art<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Science lab<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Library &amp; maker space<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Sick bay \u00b7 full-time nurse<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n        <p class=\"meta\">10 Connolley Avenue, Kingston 4<\/p>\n        <p class=\"meta\">(876) 922-5316 \u00b7 (876) 538-0866 \u00b7 wolmers.org\/wps<\/p>\n        <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/wps\/\">Open the site<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"block\">\n      <div class=\"media\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/WilEbCYJuIY\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Wolmer\u2019s Girls\u2019 Opens New School Year. Official @WolmersGroup film\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"pad\">\n        <small>Ministry school \u00b7 High school for girls \u00b7 from 1896<\/small>\n        <h3>Wolmer\u2019s Trust High School for Girls<\/h3>\n        <p>The Ministry of Education has charge of the school. The Trust has oversight and aspects of management, and owns the land.<\/p>\n        <p>Wolmer\u2019s Trust High School for Girls has stood as its own school since 1896, when the Trust separated the girls\u2019 and boys\u2019 divisions and appointed independent heads. The campus is at 2A Marescaux Road, Kingston 5, on the ground the schools took after the 1907 earthquake \u2014 north of what is now National Heroes Park.<\/p>\n        <p>Girls share a swimming pool and a cricket and track field with the Prep. The joint sixth-form block, Glasspole House, was completed in 1984 for both high schools. In 2024 the three Trust campuses, Girls included, went onto a 954-panel solar array \u2014 a gift that now runs lights and cooling across the group.<\/p>\n        <p>Write the Trust or call the Girls switchboard. The Girls website is offline.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"chips\">\n          <span class=\"chip\">Ministry school<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Own school since 1896<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">2A Marescaux Road<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Shared pool<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Shared cricket &amp; track field<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Joint sixth form \u00b7 1984<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Solar \u00b7 2024<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n        <p class=\"meta\">2A Marescaux Road, Kingston 5<\/p>\n        <p class=\"meta\">(876) 924-9669 \u00b7 (876) 948-2770<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"block\">\n      <div class=\"media\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/JjCD_WZEhZU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Wolmer\u2019s Boys\u2019 Choir. Official @WolmersGroup film\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"pad\">\n        <small>Ministry school \u00b7 High school for boys \u00b7 first dated master 1738 \u00b7 own school from 1896<\/small>\n        <h3>Wolmer\u2019s Trust High School for Boys<\/h3>\n        <p>The Ministry of Education has charge of the school. The Trust has oversight and aspects of management, and owns the land.<\/p>\n        <p>Wolmer\u2019s Trust High School for Boys is the continuation of the free school John Wolmer endowed in 1729 \u2014 the oldest high school in the English-speaking Caribbean. After the 1907 earthquake the school moved to the Quebec lands and opened new buildings at Quebec Lodge in January 1909. It remains at National Heroes Circle, Kingston 4.<\/p>\n        <p>Philip Sherlock put in the house system in 1937 \u2014 Crosse, Wolfe, Harrison and Patterson. The joint sixth form with Girls followed in 1984. After twenty-three years without a hall, ground was broken for the Douglas Orane Auditorium on 5 September 2014; it was dedicated in 2015. The Boys\u2019 choir is filmed on the Trust\u2019s own channel.<\/p>\n        <p>The Gleaner in 2015 counted 23 Rhodes Scholars from the three schools since 1904. The newer campus site is wolmersboysschool.edu.jm.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"chips\">\n          <span class=\"chip\">Ministry school<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Oldest high school in the English-speaking Caribbean<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Quebec Lodge \u00b7 1909<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Houses \u00b7 1937<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Joint sixth form \u00b7 1984<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Douglas Orane Auditorium<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Choir<\/span>\n          <span class=\"chip\">Solar \u00b7 2024<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n        <p class=\"meta\">National Heroes Circle, Kingston 4<\/p>\n        <p class=\"meta\">(876) 922-8678 \u00b7 (876) 922-4055 \u00b7 wolmersboysschool.edu.jm<\/p>\n        <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wolmersboysschool.edu.jm\/\">Open the site<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/article>\n  <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2132\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}