Saint Mary's College is an all-male

secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...

located in

Vigie Vigie is part of Castries, Saint Lucia. The French established a village at the base of Vigie Hill in 1745, and a military headquarters on Vigie Height. Three forts were built, Choc Fort facing Choc Bay, Fort St. Victor at the entrance to Grand ...

Castries Castries () is the capital city, capital and largest city of Saint Lucia, an island country in the Caribbean. The urban area has a population of approximately 20,000, while the eponymous Castries Quarter, district has a population of just under ...

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History

Saint Mary's College opened on 20 April 1890, founded by Rev. Louis Tapon as the first secondary school in Saint Lucia. In 2022 there was a legal case after the head sent a student home because he had a full head of hair. Judge Kimberly Cenac-Phulgence granted an injunction obliging the school to admit the student while the dispute was settled.

Notable alumni

John Compton Sir John George Melvin Compton, (29 April 1925 – 7 September 2007) was a Saint Lucian politician who became the first prime minister upon independence in February 1979. Having led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, Compton ser ...

, 1st prime minister of Saint Lucia *

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem '' Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as ...

, poet, dramatist and winner of the

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* Arthur Lewis, economist and winner of the

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* Philip J. Pierre, 8th prime minister of Saint Lucia * Dunstan St. Omer, painter, muralist and designer of the national flag *

Emile Ford Michael Emile Telford Miller (16 October 1937 – 11 April 2016), known professionally as Emile Ford, was a musician and singer born in Saint Lucia, British Windward Islands. He was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1 ...

, singer * Hunter J. Francois, lawyer and politician *

Vladimir Lucien Vladimir Lucien (born 16 March 1988), ''ARC Magazine''. is a writer, critic and actor from St. Lucia. His first collection of poetry, ''Sounding Ground'' (2014), won the Caribbean region's major literary prize for anglophone literature, the OCM Bo ...

, writer, critic and actor

References

1890 establishments in the British Empire Buildings and structures in Castries Educational institutions established in 1890 Schools in Saint Lucia {{SaintLucia-stub