Bridgeport High School in Portmore, St Catherine opened its doors in 1978 with just about 200 students. Its mission at the time was to offer quality education to the people of Jamaica largest growing community. From those humble beginnings, Bridgeport has increased its roll by over 1000 per cent, catering now for approximately 2396 students on two shifts with a teaching complement of 90 teachers. The 26 year-old school's motto is "Total education for total responsibility."

"There is an improvement in the academics where as it is well established that the school has been doing well with sports," Aston Messam, the principal of three years, said. "We are happy we can balance out the academics and not be labelled as just a sports school."

The school's headmaster, who has been a teacher at the school since 1980, said that they have consistently had 100 per cent passes in Home Economics at the CXC level.

Messam added that there is a yearly improvement in subjects such as Physics, Chemistry and Biology. "It has been good over the years and we have been improving more and more in the sciences," he said. "Integrated Science is in the 90s every year." Continue