By Adama Makasuba
Girl pupils have topped 2020 Gambia Basic Education Certificate Examination (GABECE) as twenty-six of them scored aggregate 6 – leaving only 10 of their fellow boys scoring the same mark.
23,039 Candidates (twenty-three thousand and thirty-nine) sat to the examination. There was much uncertainty about the performance of the pupils who wrote their examination amid a spike in coronavirus pandemic – which closed down schools for months.
And eleventh schools within Region I scored numbers of aggregate 6 followed by Region II with two schools and Region III with one school.
Below table shows full detail statistics of number of Students with Aggregate 6 by School and Gender
| Region | Centre Name | Male | Female | Total |
| 1 | ST. THERESE’S UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 1 | NDOW’S COMPREHENSIVE UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 3 | 3 | |
| 1 | ST. CHARLES LWANGA UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 3 | 3 | |
| 1 | ABC UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 2 | 2 | |
| 2 | PRESENTATION OF MARY BASIC CYCLE SCHOOL | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | LATRIKUNDA UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | REDEEMER’S INTERNATIONAL UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | SUKUTA WANNSEE UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 1 | 1 | |
| 1 | STAR PREPARATORY UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 1 | 1 | |
| 1 | ST. JOSEPH’S BASIC CYCLE SCHOOL | 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | YUNUS UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 1 | 1 | |
| 3 | BARRA UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 1 | 1 | |
| 1 | GAMBIA METHODIST ACADEMY | 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | MING-DAW UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | ST. PETER’S UPPER BASIC SCHOOL | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 10 | 16 | 2 | |
