Highlights of the school’s achievements
• SCHOOLS’ Environment Programme – placed first in 2004. • ISSA/Pepsi/JN Dacosta Cup Zone F Winner – 2006. • Spanish Festival (Dance and Song Category) – 2007. • JPS Science and Technology Expo 2008 – first place. • JPS Science and Technology Expo 2009 – first place, in the tertiary category. • French Festival – third place in Song Category – 2010. • National Exhibition for Art and Craft in School 2011 & 2012 – Best Overall. • Blackberry Developers Competition – first place, secondary division 2011. • Blackberry Developers Competition for Schools – Best in Show Award – 2011. • LIME Badminton Schools’ League Western Region (Boys) – Winner 2011– 2016.
• TVJ All Together Sing Champion School Choir – 2013. • JPSco Award of Excellence – Top CXC Science Student. • LIME Badminton Schools’ League Western Region (Girls) – Winner – 2016. • ICWI – National School Safety Exhibition – third prize. • JCDC National Festival of the Performing Arts Music National Finals – Most Outstanding Vocal Spiritual Choir Class 5 – 2017. • Schools’ Challenge Quiz – advanced to round three in 2014, 2015, 2016. • Mandeville Art Fair – Shemar Soares placed first – 2016.
• Norman Manley Intl. Airport Competition – 2018 – two students received awards for outstanding performance in artwork – the artwork of six students was displayed in the departure lounge of the airport in 2018. • Jamaica Stock Exchange Secondary Schools Gaming Competition – first place 2018. • Jamaica Stock Exchange Junior Achievement – one of the companies (‘Plastique Collection’) placed first (unofficially) – 2019. • Jamaica Stock Exchange Teacher Competition – Natalie Porter-Murray placed second in 2017.
• TVET Project first-place award for teacher and student of Visual Arts 2016. • School’s choir participated in the World’s Choir Games in South Africa in July 2018 and received a silver diploma.
• Women’s Day 2019, the choir performed at the Women in Law Conference at The UWI and received a standing ovation from the audience, led by the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness.
• Student Setrice Clarke awarded a scholarship to China to study medicine. • The Girls’ Basketball team was crowned Central Regional Champions after going through the 2018 season unbeaten. They went on to finish third in the AllIsland playoffs, only losing one match to the eventual champions, Holy Childhood High School.
• Top player, Chavel McIntosh, was rewarded with a place on a select squad that travelled to China for a two-month training camp last summer. • We recently placed fourth in our zone in the 2019 InterSecondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Grace Headley Cup Rural Area Cricket Competition.
• Our football team made it to the quarterfinals of the ISSA DaCosta Cup Football Competition in 2006 and won the All-Island U-16 Football Competition in 2007. • deCarteret College’s cheerleaders took second place in the inaugural Fontana Pharmacy Cheerleadering Competition, which was held at Belair High School on Saturday, February 2, 2019.