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At a time when na­tion­al ed­u­ca­tion da­ta of­ten shows boys trail­ing be­hind girls aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly, one To­ba­go pri­ma­ry school is re­port­ing the op­po­site trend.

At St An­drew’s An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School, boys are con­sis­tent­ly lead­ing the top aca­d­e­m­ic po­si­tions, a de­vel­op­ment the school says re­flects years of tar­get­ed strate­gies aimed at clos­ing the tra­di­tion­al achieve­ment gap.

Prin­ci­pal Nicole Hen­ry told Guardian Me­dia that the pat­tern has been no­tice­able across sev­er­al class­es at the school, where boys of­ten make up the ma­jor­i­ty of the top per­form­ers.