The school has won Television Jamaica's Schools Challenge Quiz competition five times, in 1973, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2013 joining Wolmer's Boys School and Munro College with five wins and trailing Kingston College with ten wins.
The Championships began as a standardized sports day for six of Jamaica’s oldest high schools, Potsdam (now Munro College), St. George’s College, Jamaica College, the Wolmer’s School, New College and Mandeville Middle Grade School.
She spent the following year obtaining a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of London, before beginning her career in education by teaching in Wolmer's Boys High School, Jamaica (1971–73).
Kamehameha Schools | Chicago Public Schools | Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools | American Schools of Oriental Research | Rival Schools | schools | Montgomery County Public Schools | Eco-Schools | De La Salle Supervised Schools | Rival Schools (band) | Horry County Schools | Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music | Seattle Public Schools | Prince George's County Public Schools | Pittsburgh Public Schools | National Association of Independent Schools | Detroit Public Schools | Department for Children, Schools and Families | Atlanta Public Schools | Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business | World Schools Debating Championships | Wolmer's Schools | Peterhouse Group of Boarding Schools | Flint Community Schools | Dave Schools | South African College Schools | New York City Schools Chancellor | National Public Schools, Bangalore (disambiguation) | National Public Schools, Bangalore | National Association of Schools of Music |
It was created in 1882 for the lawyer and Liberal politician Roundell Palmer, 1st Baron Selborne, along with the subsidiary title of Viscount Wolmer, of Blackmoor in the County of Southampton.
The son of Captain William Palmer, Viscount Wolmer, in turn son of Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, and the Honourable Grace Ridley, Lord Selborne succeeded to his grandfather's titles in 1971.
See King's Schools for the school in Seattle, United States, Fort Ticonderoga for the garden in New York State, and for the park in Stockholm, Sweden, see Kungsträdgården.
Wallen, a Wolmer's Boys' School graduate, also studied in United States, where he graduated from The Hotchkiss School in June 2000.