Calabar High School
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61 Red Hills Road 
 Calabar High School
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| Coordinates | 18°01′44″N 76°48′34″W / 18.0289037°N 76.8094218°WCoordinates: 18°01′44″N 76°48′34″W / 18.0289037°N 76.8094218°W |
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| Motto | The Utmost for the Highest |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Christianity |
| Denomination | Baptist |
| Established | 1912 |
| Founded | September 12, 1912 |
| Founder | Revds. Ernest Price and David Davis |
| Status | Open |
| School number | +1 (876) 931-4723 |
| Principal | Albert Corcho |
| Grades | 7-13 |
| Gender | Males |
| Hours in school day | Approximately seven (7) hours |
| Houses |
Sparta (Yellow) Rome (Blue) Athens (Purple) Corinth (Green) Troy (Red) |
| School colour(s) | Green and Black |
| Sports | Track and Field, Football, Cricket, Basketball |
| Nickname | C-Bar, Rabalac |
| Publication | Chronicles of Rabalac |
| Yearbook | The Green and Black Review |
| Website | http://www.calabarhighschool.com |
61 Red Hills Road
Kingston
Jamaica
Sparta (Yellow) Rome (Blue) Athens (Purple) Corinth (Green)
Calabar High School is a prominent all-male secondary school in Kingston, Jamaica. It was established by the Jamaica Baptist Union in 1912 for the children of Baptist ministers and poor blacks, and was named after the former slave port Calabar, in present-day Nigeria. Today, it is considered one of the finest schools in the country. It has produced at least five Rhodes Scholars, and is respected for its outstanding performance in track and field.
In 1839, William Knibb, Thomas Burchell and James Phillippo, the three leading English Baptist missionaries working in Jamaica, worked to create a college to train native Baptist ministers. Out of this effort, Calabar Theological College was founded in 1843, sited in the village of Calabar, near Rio Bueno in Trelawny Parish. The Spanish named Calabar after a slave port in Nigeria of the same name.
In 1868, Calabar College was removed to East Queen Street, Kingston, where a "normal" school for training teachers and a high school for boys were added. Shortly afterwards, the high school was closed and the teacher-training activities ceased. This left the practising school—now Calabar All-Age on Sutton Street—and the theological college, which was relocated at Studley Park (on Slipe Pen Road) in 1904.
At the beginning of the 1900s, there were few high schools to educate the sons of the working class and the rising middle class. In September 1912, the Revs. Ernest Price and David Davidson—Principal and Tutor, respectively, of Calabar Theological College, founded Calabar High School under the joint sponsorship of the Baptist Missionary Society of London and the Jamaica Baptist Union.
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