Until August 1976 there were in St. Maarten two schools for secondary education. The
Catholic Education Foundation had a MAVO school, Pastor Nieuwenhuis for
MAVO, and the island government had a MAVO ETAO school together and
housed in the John Philip School. These schools were not enough. There was a need for more forms of education, which meant that more schools should be built. Netherlands, which would finance construction of schools, said the requirement that a school would be built. This school had different forms of secondary education be housed.
There was a special foundation was created to be that the responsibility for school and secondary education would take. On
20 February 1974, the Foundation for the Advancement of Secondary
Education Windward Islands (SVOBE) consisting of representatives of the
government and the Catholic Education Foundation. The foundation consisted of 11 members.
In the same year began the construction of the school. On August 17, 1976 the school was officially opened with 425 pupils and 25 teachers.
Mr Ronald Francisca became the first general manager. The
school was named Milton Peters College, named after Mr. Milton Peters
(10 January 1891-15 October 1985), which from 1955-1971 was commissioner
of education and during that time many in the education has helped.
In
the meantime the school were identified: lower-secondary school (grades
1 t / m 3), the four-year, the etao and vocational school. In 1982 the school was expanded with the upper secondary school, the first examinations were conducted in 1984. When the number of pupils was 875. The success rate of secondary school was 72% with the highest rates in the Netherlands Antilles. In 1986 the mts added, the first finals in 1990 took place. In 1987, high school there. In 1992, their first final exams decreased.
Soon after the school building was much too small and thus was in the lot over the years built.
On 1 August 1990 with the departure of Mr. Francisca abolished the position of managing director. This was also the end of the school MPC and the beginning of the community of schools. This meant that every school had its own director. This
form of management was not efficient, hence the school board has
decided on 1 August 2004 another general manager to appoint the general
management of the school. In addition, each department has a department head and two coordinators.
Currently the school has a student population of approximately 1200 students and a teacher's file of + 90 teachers.
The Milton Peters College (MPC) is the competent authority of the SVOBE (Foundation for the Advancement Secondary Education Windward Islands). The MPC is a school that provides education on the following levels: the Preparatory Secondary Vocational Education (VSBO) which decomposes into: Theoretical framework based training (TKL) Practically oriented framework program (PKL) Practically oriented basic training (PBL) General secondary education (HAVO) Pre-university education (VWO).
