Holy Childhood High School is a

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. It is a well-ranked all-girls school for academics and

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. Pupils of the institution go on to careers in, among other areas, law, business, education, medicine and the arts. The school was named after the Child Jesus, and was founded by the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help of Jamaica (FMS) in

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. Holy Childhood High began as a private school in 1937 with 8 pupils (3 boys 5 girls the boys were later transferred to St. George's College) housed in a building near Holy Cross Rectory. Today the school is located at 9 Skibo Avenue Kingston 10, Jamaica, West Indies. The school is operated by the Ministry of Education in Jamaica and receives financial assistance, which makes it a grant-in-aid school. As of 2010 the student population stands at over 1700, exclusive of the Holy Childhood Institute, a private institution which caters for approximately 300 students. Both the high school and the Institute are accommodated on approximately of land which provide space for offices, a playing field, blocks of classrooms, science and language laboratories, a library, bookstore, areas for Home Economics, Music, visual art studios, two tennis courts, a health clinic, gardens, and a large multipurpose hall - Stephanie Hall- named for a past headmistress Sr. Stephanie Grey, FMS, who served as headmistress from 1966-1996. The school's emblem is a shield, embedded with the school’s motto, Post Proleium Pramieum which translates to "AFTER THE BATTLE THE REWARD". The school’s colours are blue and gold.

Notable alumnae

Jacqueline Bishop Jacqueline Bishop is a writer, visual artist and photographer from Jamaica, who now lives in New York City, where she is a professor at the School of Liberal Studies at New York University (NYU).Ann-Marie Campbell Ann-Marie Campbell (born 1965) is a Jamaican-American business executive. Since January 2016, she has been the executive vice president of U.S. stores for The Home Depot. She began working at Home Depot as a part-time cashier during college, and r ...

, executive vice-president for

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Macka Diamond Charmaine Munroe (born 12 January 1971), known professionally as Macka Diamond, is a Jamaican recording artist, singer, songwriter and actress. She was born in Kingston and raised in Portmore. Early in her career during the 1990s, she was known ...

,Jamaican singer and writer *

Marcia Douglas Marcia Douglas is a novelist, poet, and performer. Life and education Douglas was born in the United Kingdom to Jamaican parents. Her family returned to Jamaica when Douglas was six, and she grew up in Kingston. Douglas received an MFA in cre ...

, award-winning author and university professor

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Holy Childhood High School on Go Jamaica
{{Schools in Jamaica Educational institutions established in 1929 Catholic schools in Jamaica Girls' schools in Jamaica Schools in Kingston, Jamaica 1929 establishments in the British Empire