The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information is reporting that 89.5 per cent of students who sat the 2025 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination have been placed in a school of their choice.
Some 33,462 students across 964 institutions were registered, 17,057 of whom are males and 16,405 females.
Addressing Friday’s PEP Press Conference at the Ministry’s Heroes’ Circle offices in Kingston, Portfolio Minister Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, said there was a notable achievement in the placement of the top-performing students.
“The top-10 students used to go to three schools. This year, the top 10 students are going to six different schools. The number-one student in Jamaica in PEP will be going to Ardenne High School,” she noted.
Top students also secured places at Decarteret College, Immaculate Conception High, Herbert Morrison Technical High, Campion College and St Andrew High School for Girls.
“What you are seeing is beautiful. You are seeing that there are other schools now that are being seen as schools of choice for children. What we want to do is continue expanding that list,” she said.
Meanwhile, Dr Morris Dixon shared that more primary schools have entered the top-50-ranked schools at the primary and preparatory levels.
Commending students on their performance, she said: “You’ve done very well. You’ve worked hard. We know you started at a disadvantage with COVID, spending grade one and grade two outside of the classroom.”
“It would’ve been hard but you did it. We also had Hurricane Beryl last year and for some students, they were very much affected by it and they’ve risen to the occasion and they have delivered good results,” the minister added.
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