Queen's College, Guyana
| Queen's College | |
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| Coordinates | 6°48′51″N 58°09′49″W / 6.8142848°N 58.1637347°WCoordinates: 6°48′51″N 58°09′49″W / 6.8142848°N 58.1637347°W |
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| Motto |
Fideles Ubique Utiles (Faithful and Useful Always.) |
| Established | 1844 |
| Founder | William Piercy Austin |
| Status | Open |
| Principal | Jackie Benn |
| Gender | co-ed |
| Number of students | 900 |
| Classes offered | CSEC, CAPE |
| Medium of language | English |
| Language | English |
| Classrooms | 23 |
| Houses | Percival (A), Raleigh (B), Austin (C), D'Urban (D), Pilgrim (E), Weston (F), Moulder (G), Wooley (H), Cunningham (K), Nobbs (L) |
| School colour(s) | Black and Yellow |
| Nickname | Q.C. |
| USNWR ranking | 1 |
| National ranking | 1 |
| Newspaper | The Lictor |
Queen's College is a secondary school in Georgetown, Guyana, situated at the south-easterly junction of Camp Street and Thomas Lands. Students can enter the school through the National Grade Six Assessment(NGSA) and at the Lower 6th Form Level if the academic performance of the student at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate(CSEC) is satisfactory.
In 1951, a history of the school History of Queen's College was published by Senior Master N. E. Cameron. It was updated and re-published in 2009 by the QC Alumni Association in Toronto Toronto Alumni Association.
Queen's College was established in 1844 as the Queen's College Grammar School for boys by William Piercy Austin, D.D., Bishop of the Anglican diocese of then British Guiana. The female equivalent was the Bishops' High School.
The first assembly was held on 5 August 1844 with an enrolment of 15 boys. Although the school started out as an Anglican church School, Bishop Austin was interested in making it a more broad-based institution to include non-Anglicans. Its first administration, however, consisted only of members of the Church of England.
Formal classes commenced on 15 August 1844 in the Old Colony House (situated in the compound of what is now the Guyana High Courts, previously known as the Victoria Law Courts). The original fifteen students had two tutors, with Bishop Austin himself becoming the first Principal. In 1845 the school moved to Main and Quamina (then Murray) Streets. Its population was rapidly expanding and, with a student body of 70 and three tutors, another move was made in 1854 to its first formal building at Carmichael and Quamina Streets.
In 1876, the school became a colonial institution and was renamed Queen's College. Several additional changes in location took the school to the site of the present Ministry of Health building (Vlissengen Road and Brickdam) in 1918, and then to its present location in Thomas Lands (Camp and Thomas Roads), where the facilities were formally opened on 3 December 1951. The school became co-educational in 1975. This was accomplished by transferring approximately one hundred and fifty girls into the 2nd, 3rd, Upper 5th and Lower 6th forms from the Bishops' High School, which institution was also a single-sex institution. Girls were also admitted into the first form.
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