LATANYA CLAYTON : Olympic Gardens girl tops GSAT with 99.6% average

LATANYA Clayton from St Jude's Primary School, located in the inner-city community of Olympic Gardens, Kingston 11, is this year's top female GSAT performer in the entire island from any school type.
Latanya Clayton
Clayton received an average of 99.6 per cent, after scoring 99 per cent in Mathematics, 100 in Science, 99 in Social Studies, 100 in Language Arts and 12/12 in Communication Tasks.
The top performing boy in the entire island from any school type is Mark Brown from Chetwood Memorial Primary in Montego Bay with an average of 99.4 per cent. He scored 99 per cent in Mathematics, 98 in Science, 100 in Social Studies, 100 in Language Arts and 12/12 in Communication Task.
The two are among 63 students who have been awarded scholarships for their excellent performance in the 2013 GSAT Examination by the Ministry of Education. They were chosen from a field of over 43,000 students who sat the examination in March.
Both students will be moving on to St Andrew High and Cornwall College respectively. And both will be receiving the ScotiaBank Foundation Shining Star Excellence Award valued at a total of $1,435,000 each and paid in equal instalments over seven years or $205,000 per annum. Read more: 

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