Richland Park SDA Primary student tops CPEA

THE ENTIRE ASSEMBLY of the Richland Park Seventh Day Adventist Primary School was in very high spirits yesterday, June 22, 2026 as they celebrated the success of three students who wrote the CPEA earlier this year.

While students did not official receive the results of the May 13 and 14 Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment word had already filtered through to teachers and parents from several schools, and the Richland Park SDA Primary appeared to be among those in the know. Three of its studentsall boys placed among the top 10, including the top performer this year, Draadon Ackie. Richland Park SDA also copped the fifth and seventh places in Michael Febuary and Philan Lewis, respectively.

Ackie recorded a score of 98.20 which was the highest average score recorded in the 2026 CPEA.The school’s principal, began the celebrations before Monday, going through her community blowing on a bugle similar to that which featured prominently during the 2025 general elections campaign, and it continued at the school’s compound on Monday morning when students, staff and parents gathered. Other schools were in celebratory mode as well, their Grade-6 students being among the top 10 performers; and generally those whose students returned successful grades in the CPEA.

Two males ranked second in the top 10, and two also had a similar ranking for the fourth place. The Kingstown Preparatory had four students in the top 10; Dickson Methodist, Sugar Mill Academy and Brighton Methodist each had one student who placed in this grouping. The Ministry of Education in a release said that of 1766 students who registered for the CPEA, 1760 actually wrote the final exams and the preliminary results indicate that 1557, or 88.47 %, met the prescribed standard. This was a slight increase on the 87.34% who met the prescribed standard in 2025.

(More detailed coverage will be provided in our weekend edition)