Editing Port of Spain (section)

== Education ==
[[File:QRC2009.JPG|thumb|[[Queen's Royal College]]]]
[[File:FrederickStMarysPOS.jpg|thumb|St. Mary's College POS 2008]] In 1999/2000 there were 40 Government/Assisted schools located in the Port of Spain Administrative Area. There were 17,957 students enrolled in primary schools<ref>Central Statistical Office of Trinidad and Tobago (2000) [https://web.archive.org/web/20070212060606/http://cso.gov.tt/statistics/pdf/TABLES2-3_1999_2000.pdf Tables 2–3 on Enrollment in Primary Schools]</ref> and 15,641 enrolled in secondary school. In secondary schools, 7,567 were male and 8,074 were female.<ref>Central Statistical Office of Trinidad and Tobago (2000) [https://web.archive.org/web/20060222163812/http://cso.gov.tt/statistics/pdf/TABLE16_1999-2000.pdf Table 16 on Enrollment in Secondary Schools]</ref>
Education is free and compulsory up to secondary school. Port of Spain school leavers, as citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, do not pay tuition to study at local & regional public and private tertiary institutions except for graduate studies where they pay a heavily subsidised fee. There are several prominent tertiary institutions in Port of Spain and environs, in particular the St. Augustine campus of the three-campus, Caribbean-wide [[University of the West Indies]], which had a local campus enrollment of 15,571 in academic year 2007/2008.<ref>[http://sta.uwi.edu/resources/documents/Student_Statistics_2007-2008.pdf Student Statistics]. St. Augustine campus, University of the West Indies</ref> The [[University of Trinidad and Tobago]] has several campuses and institutes in the greater Port of Spain area including the Chaguaramas Centre for Maritime Studies.