Barbados achieved a 93.8 per cent overall pass rate in the 2026 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), with 4 710 passing results out of 5 022 subject sittings. Chief Education Officer Dr Ramona Archer-Bradshaw revealed these results during the announcement of the nation’s top Scholarship and Exhibition winners at the Ministry of Education Transformation.

​The Chief Education Officer presented a detailed overview of the island’s performance across regional assessment levels. For CAPE in 2026, 5 196 candidates registered, up from 4 999 in 2025. Of these, 5 022 completed the exams, with 55.4 per cent being female and 44.6 per cent male.

​”The achievements of our scholarship and exhibition recipients become even more significant when viewed against the wider performance of Barbados in the 2026 CAPE examinations,” Archer-Bradshaw said.