Contact : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Founded in 1973. In the period before emancipation there was a lack of public education in Jamaica as well as in other British West Indian Colonies. This problem was created by a society which allowed personal prestige to the white plantocracy who wherever possible sent their children to Europe for an education or alternatively employed the services of private tutors. This meant that little or no concern was given to the provision of local schools since the negroes were generally slaves and the coloureds were not given the type of Consideration which would lead to the provision of schools for them. Although the idea of establishing free public schools was scoffed at by the wealthy a number of donations were left by wealthy planters sympathetic to the cause of education especially for poor whites