Bishop Anstey High School East & Trinity College East

Bishop Anstey High School East & Trinity College Eastare in its formative years of operations. The schools had its first intake of students in September 2001. This school project is part of a wider project initiative of the Anglican Diocese I n Trinidad and Tobago to provide secondary education.

This project has involved the construction and operation of two secondary schools namely Bishop Anstey High School East for girls and Trinity College East for boys. Each school has an optimum enrolment capacity of 875 students. The schools are set in a suburban environment conducive to learning on a 15-acre parcel of land in Trincity.

In May 1998, the Anglican community identified the urgent need to prepare more of our young citizens to lead a moral and spiritual life and make a greater contribution to society in order to reverse the deleterious impact on society due to the reduced role of religious bodies in secondary education, and provide additional quality education opportunities for students along the east/west corridor where the situation was deemed critical.

The project was given impetus by the Government which had indicated its interest in having denominational boards resume their traditional role in education. The Government's objective also included discontinuing the Common Entrance examination by the year 2000, its commitment to the de-shifting process, the promotion of the maximum use of technology as effective teaching and learning mechanisms, as well as it ’s thrust to prepare our citizens to operate in an information age, and enhance the skill sets of the work force. In order to facilitate the foregoing objectives, an alternative education financing mechanism was developed by the Anglican Diocese, which pooled its resources with that of Government and private sector organisations; the land and construction services were provided by Home Construction Limited.

On May 25, 2000, after two years of intense prayer, work and negotiations, the sod turning ceremony took place and construction commenced on June 29, 2000.

The Anglican Diocese has had a distinguished track record in secondary education from as early as 1921 through the vision of Bishop Arthur Henry Anstey, with the founding of the Bishop Anstey High School, Port-of-Spain, then later on the Fyzabad Anglican Secondary School, St. Stephen’s College, Princes Town, Bishop’s High School, Tobago, Bishop's Centenary College and Trinity College, Maraval. Graduates of these Anglican secondary schools have excelled in diverse fields such as science, business, medicine, finance, law, sports and the arts and continue to make outstanding contributions to the development of this country. We intend to replicate the sound education models of these schools at Trinity College East.

The School is a private school and is managed by a Board of Management appointed by the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese in Trinidad and Tobago, through the Bishop Anstey Association, the Organisation for the management of Anglican secondary schools. Funding for the school is based on fees paid by the Government for the students placed, leasing of the facilities, fund raising projects and donations.