St. Theresa Preparatory School - Kingston, Jamaica

The St. Theresa Preparatory School was founded through the instrumentality of the Rev. Father Barry, S.J. and was officially opened on Monday September 7, 1953. His Lordship, Bishop John J. McEleney, S.J. blessed the school.

Classes commenced on Tuesday September 8 (the Feast of Our Lady's Nativity) with two hundred and twenty (220) pupils. The school was then a long, low building with five classrooms. The Rev. Father James H. Barry, S.J. was also instrumental in the staffing of the school, having invited the Dominican Sisters in Jamaica, with the permission of Mother Geraldine, to be the first teachers. Sister Marcella was the first principal and Miss Una Hendricks, the Vice Principal. Sister Timothy and three lay teachers completed the initial staff.

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Vision

Central to the Teachings of The Roman Catholic Faith, the St. Theresa Preparatory School aspires to inculcate in each student a high level of Christian values, academic skills and other principles that will equip him/her to become a well adjusted individual, able to take his/her rightful place, creditably, in any institution of higher learning.