From the archive: the 2003 expansion that ended the double shift
In 2003 the Jamaica Observer reported the completion of a $30 million expansion at the then 25-year-old Maud McLeod High. The school had been built to hold 350 students in grades seven to nine; by then it carried around 1,300 across grades seven to eleven and had been forced onto a double-shift system to fit them in.
The then principal, Heather Murray, said the expansion meant proper facilities for both junior and senior students, particularly in science and home economics, and that a single shift would finally give room for the extra-curricular life the school had been missing. Anyone who sat in those double-shift classes will remember what that meant.