To­ba­go’s ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem is show­ing signs of progress, with more pri­ma­ry schools per­form­ing above the na­tion­al av­er­age in this year’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA), ac­cord­ing to the Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy.

Dur­ing a press con­fer­ence yes­ter­day, the di­vi­sion said the is­land still faces se­ri­ous chal­lenges, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Eng­lish, math­e­mat­ics, and the per­for­mance of boys.

Twelve schools scored above the na­tion­al av­er­age in 2025, com­pared to just five in pre­vi­ous years. Sec­re­tary of Ed­u­ca­tion, Zor­isha Hack­ett, de­scribed this as a sig­nif­i­cant achieve­ment and praised both stu­dents and ed­u­ca­tors.