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The Westwood High School is an all-female high school located in Stewart Town, Trelawny, Jamaica. It was founded in 1882 by Baptist Minister Reverend W.M. Webb with the aim to provide unsegregated education for girls. The school also set up a board of trustees to represent the different protestant denominations. It caters to secondary students and after 36 years reopened its sixth form programme in 2014. Westwood is among the 5 boarding remaining in Jamaica and has been the only school to retain the tradition of wearing a jippi-jappa hat.
Amy Ashwood Garvey, a Pan-Africanist activist and the first wife of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, was a student of the school.
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