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The level of student performance varies significantly among Cayman Islands public primary schools, with differences in results only partly explained by assessments of students’ pre-existing “thinking abilities”, according to the Education Data Report 2021.
Teaching in the Cayman Islands during the COVID-19 pandemic has been, in a word, ‘exhausting’. Many of the country’s teachers say their current workloads are simply not sustainable, according to school inspectors’ reports.
Most students at West End Primary School continued to make academic progress during the pandemic, an inspector said. However, some staff said they were ‘overwhelmed and disheartened’ by the rapid pace in which changes and new initiatives were being introduced at the Cayman Brac school.
West End Primary School retained its overall rating of ‘Satisfactory’ in its recent inspection, with grades increasing in some individual categories and declining in others.
How prepared a student is for high school could depend on which public primary school they attend.
Grand Cayman’s public secondary schools are at more than 90% of their maximum capacity, meaning that they could accommodate fewer than 200 additional students who wish to enrol.
On Saturday, Cayman Brac’s Creek & Spot Bay Primary Schools celebrated the official opening of their new playing fields.
Primary schools across Cayman Brac and Little Cayman came together to host the annual Cayman Brac & Little Cayman Inter-Primary School Sports Day with students from each school competing in either of two houses – the Hornets and the Chargers.
This infographic shows the primary schools’ inspection results in 18 individual categories, as well as the overall school rating.