Using a case study approach, this paper describes the history and considers the success of an innovative hybrid school model aimed at improving access to quality primary education in inner-city Kingston, Jamaica. It examines access, student achievement, non-academic issues and the challenges of COVID-19. It draws on personal experience and data from empirical research at the Chetolah Mel Nathan Education Centre, a recent merger of the Mel Nathan Preparatory School and the Chetolah Park Primary School in inner-city Kingston. The merger of these two schools resulted in the higher aspirations and outcomes associated with the prep school ethos, along with the range of government resources. While this particular hybrid model depended on a unique situation in Jamaica, it points to the more general potential for co-production in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and further afield.

本文使用案例研究的方法描述了历史，并考虑了旨在改善牙买加金斯敦市中心优质初等教育机会的创新型混合学校模式的成功。它检查访问，学生成绩，非学术问题以及COVID-19的挑战。它借鉴了Chetolah Mel Nathan教育中心（由Mel Nathan预备学校和位于市中心金斯敦的Chetolah Park小学最近合并而成）的经验研究提供的个人经验和数据。这两所学校的合并带来了与预科学校风气相关的更高的愿望和成果，以及政府资源的范围。尽管这种特殊的混合模式取决于牙买加的独特情况，但它指出了在牙买加联合生产的更普遍的潜力，