History

Goodwood Secondary School opened its doors at the Signal Hill Secondary School in 2000 under the ‘School for All’ initiative of the then United National Congress government. It was called the Scarborough Secondary Centre. In 2003 the School moved into its current location in Goodwood as the Goodwood High School with first and third forms. The school remained a five -year institution until 2008 when the sixth form was started. The government subsequently (2015) designated that it bears the name Goodwood Secondary School.

The years 2000 to 2008 saw an era under the leadership of the first Principal Mrs Agnes Murray-Thomas where the school was characterised by discipline, cleanliness and a pristine environmental presence. The school would have won several clean school awards. The focus promoted by the second Principal resulted in the school being considered a magnet school for Visual and Performing Arts until 2013. The current intent is to develop an institution where practice and policy interact rigorously to ensure the holistic needs of each student are met in the teaching and learning process to nurture self-sufficiency.