PHILIPSBURG–Charlotte Brookson Academy of the Performance Arts, in spite of periodic virtual homelessness in the past school year, has seen a second consecutive year of stellar results from the students who sat the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations (CSEC), administered by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), and the Dutch exams via General Certificate of Education (GCE) Cambridge.
For the 2016-2017 academic year, CBA’s 30 senior students collectively secured for their school an overall passing rate of 98.3 per cent. On the Dutch exams, they captured a passing rate of 93.8 per cent.
“Our students gave a stellar performance and proved that they did not only work towards passing; they worked towards achieving excellence,” according to a school press statement.
CBA’s students obtained a 100-per-cent passing rate in the subjects CSEC English A, Mathematics, Spanish, Electronic Document Preparation Management, Social Studies, Chemistry, Biology, Principles of Business, Principles of Accounts, Visual Arts, Music, Theatre Arts and Human Social Biology.
In the subject Integrated Science, they captured a passing rate of 80 per cent. Over the various subjects a cumulative of 55 Grade I was captured, 41 Grade II, 24 Grade III and one Grade IV.
All but one student passed the Cambridge Dutch exam with grades A, B or C.
It was the first time that a large number of CBA students wrote the CSEC examinations in Mathematics. They captured nine Grade I with five straight A-profiles.
In English A, they performed “remarkably” by securing 11 Grade I, of which 10 were straight A-profiles out of a total of 18 students.
“With this exceptional showing CBA students have captured a place of prominence in the educational landscape of St. Maarten and its students have soared like eagles above the hardship, adversity, humiliation and roadblocks they encountered along their climb to success. These students and their teachers are the embodiment of perseverance, hard work, resilience and determination,” said the school.
“As a fledgling school that has only recently turned six, and with students and teachers, being our only assets, we reached out to other schools on the island for assistance when necessary and our requests were never turned down,” the school statement pointed out with thanks to those who have assisted in the past.
CBA management and staff said of their journey so far: “The first six years were not easy, but they were worth every single step that we took, every hurdle that we crossed, every tear that we shed. The struggle was worth it all because it made a dramatic difference in the life of our first cohort of students. We assisted them to believe that they could.”
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/79967-cba-logs-stellar-results-for-second-year-at-csec-and-gce
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