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Munro College is an all boys' high school located in the parish of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. It stands 2,650 feet above sea level, on the highest peak of the Santa Cruz Mountain. The school location provides a panoramic view of the Pedro Plains in the distance below.
Munro has been at its current site since 1856 and to date it has turned out a large number of students, most of who have gone on to become leaders in their fields. It is one of the few educational institutions of its type that still offers accommodation to both on-campus boarders as well as travel-in students.
The school continues to set high standards of achievement and has produced more Rhodes Scholars than any other school in the Caribbean. The main emphasis of the school has always been academics, however sports has always been an important part of the school's life. There are a number of students who are currently pursuing university studies in North America and Europe, after winning sports scholarships for outstanding performances in track and field, football, hockey and other sports. Apart from sports, other extra-curricular activities include Cadet Training, Red Cross Youth Link, Photography Club, Debating and Public Speaking, Language Training, Drama and Music. Munro has also excelled in national quiz competitions. They have won the senior national quiz competition a total of five times, the second most all time, and are current champions.
The school offers to students a well-rounded curriculum, which caters to students who are either academically or technically inclined. From well-equipped science labs to safely laid-out heavy machinery workshops, students can choose courses that allow for the dissecting of a rat through to the building of nuts and bolts. A thorough groundwork is laid for students who wish to enter university to pursue studies towards a career in just about any field, medicine, law, engineering, business, computer programming and research.
history:
When Robert Hugh Munro died in 1798, he willed a sum of money "for the endowment of a school in the parish of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica for the education of poor children of the parish." These funds were bequeathed in a trust to his nephew, Dr. Caleb Dickenson and the churchwardens of the parish and their successors to be used to establish and operate the school.
The funds were used for other purposes until 1856, when through an Act of the Legislature the remainder of the bequest was used to establish the Munro & Dickenson Free School in Black River. The following year the school was moved to Potsdam, the highest point in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and was at that time the only high school for boys in the western Jamaica. The name of the school was later changed to Munro College.
In 1858 Mount Zion, a high school for girls was founded from the Trust funds. That school was later relocated to its present site at Malvern, and renamed Hampton School. The Mission of the Munro and Dickenson Trust is philosophically oriented towards promoting and nurturing the qualities of discipline, scholarship, integrity and leadership in the students of Munro and Hampton.
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