The Shashamane Foundation's own page recounting the history of the Jamaica Rastafarian Development Community (JRDC) School, from its 1975 origin as home schooling for six children through its formal registration in 2002 to its current enrollment of several hundred students. Its strength is that the Foundation is the school's supporting organization with direct institutional knowledge of its own history. Its limit is that it is the supporting foundation's own standing description rather than a dated, independently audited statistic, so a specific current figure should be checked against the school's own more recent reporting.
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Reliability Tier2
Tier two: the supporting foundation's own standing description of the school's history, not a dated annual statistic. NotesThe Shashamane Foundation's own page on the history of the JRDC school it supports, read directly. States the school traces to 1975 home schooling by Brother Donald Leach, was formally registered as the Jamaican Rastafarian Development Community School in 2002, currently has a registered school population of 430 students and 29 staff, and that over 2,000 students have graduated on to higher education since. Classed own-published-statistics: the supporting foundation's own standing description, not a dated annual statistic, so no as-of-date fact is written against this figure.
Citation
AuthorThe Shashamane Foundation
PublisherThe Shashamane Foundation
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://shashamane.org/jrdc-school-history/
Source Typeorganization primary source
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This source names Jamaica directly: "own page recounting the history of the Jamaica Rastafarian Development Community (JRDC) School, from its 1975 origin as home schooling for six children through its formal registration in 2002 to its..."
This source names Shashamane directly: "The Shashamane Foundation's own page recounting the history of the Jamaica Rastafarian Development Community (JRDC) School, from its 1975 origin as home schooling for six children through its formal..."
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This source backs 36 claims across the atlas. As facts: 26 well-attested. As cited relationships: 7 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Organizations, 12 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
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