Munro College is a boarding school for boys in St Elizabeth, Jamaica. It was founded in 1856 as the Potsdam School (named for the city of Potsdam), a school for boys in St. Elizabeth as stipulated in the will of plantation owners Robert Hugh Munro and Caleb Dickenson. It was renamed Munro College during World War I as part of the general rejection of German names at the time, though the surrounding Potsdam district was not also renamed.
Munro College takes its name from one of its benefactors and was established in the fashion of the Britishpublic school. Several of the boarding houses take the names of other benefactors or illustrious alumni. The campus has its own chapel and magnificent views of the Caribbean Sea and Pedro Plains from its perch atop the peak of the Santa Cruz Mountains.[1]
Munro College is reputed to have produced the most Rhode Scholars of any secondary school in the Caribbean.[citation needed] The most recent Rhodes Scholar from Munro College is Vincent F. Taylor (Jamaica and Magdalen 2013).[1]
Munro College is one of seven all-boy's schools and the only all boy boarding school in Jamaica.
Hurricane Beryl severely damaged 32 of the 35 building on the Munro College campus. It is estimated that it will take $2 million dollars to repair the devastation.
Sixth form
Although established as a free school for poor boys, Munro used to admit Hampton girls into its 6th Form programme, but as of the new term of September 2010 this was discontinued, along with the classes previously offered at Hampton School. Munro College now has a shared campus with Hampton School where both set of sixth formers learn the arts.
Munro College was the first high school in the English-speaking Caribbean to have a grid-connected wind turbine energy source. The 225 kilowatt generator was commissioned in 1996, making Munro College a pioneer leader in renewable energy sources in the Caribbean.
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