JIS Features Written by: Garfield L. Angus Principal of the St. Andrew-based Melrose Primary and Infant School, Keisha Waller, tests one of several sanitisers installed at the institution recently. Photo: Yhomo Hutchinson Melrose Primary and Infant School in St. Andrew has achieved success in its numeracy and literacy rates over three years. In 2017, numeracy was at 33 per cent and literacy at 58 per cent. By 2019, the school grew its literacy rate to 81 per cent and numeracy, 60 per cent. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the institution has not had external or standardised assessments for 2020/2021. Of note is that in 2017, three students were placed in traditional high schools, and that moved to nine in 2019, and seven in 2020, while the population at the school has increased from 256 in 2018 to 385 in 2019