In July 1951 the Official Board of the Aramalaya Presbyterian Church
appealed to the Presbyterian of the Canadian Mission Church for a Boys'
Secondary School to be sited on Sheriff Street, Tunapuna.
Two years later the Naparima College
Board, which was governing only the Canadian missionary Secondary Boys'
School in the country at the time, was instructed by the Presbytery to
proceed with plans for a programme of secondary school expansion, giving
priority to the oilfield area and the area in the vicinity of Tunapuna.
A committee of missionaries agreed to release buildings on Sheriff
Street for use and on 27 September 1954 application was made to the Colonial Government for the recognition of a Provisional Assisted Secondary School in Tunapuna.
On Monday, 17 January 1955 the school was opened under the principalship of Rev. H. F. Swann. It was called Naparima College, Tunapuna Branch,
with an enrollment of 44 students and two teachers. The church hall on
Sheriff Street was used as the classroom and the portion of the grounds
and cow-she were used for games.
Naparima College, Tunapuna Branch remained on this site until
September 1957. In this year the Principal, staff and students entered
the present site at the top of El Dorado Road. In November 1957 the
government granted the college Permanent Status as a Government Assisted
Secondary School and in 1962 the next principal,, Dr. Stephen
Moosai-Maharaj, renamed the school to Hillview College and gave it its motto and composed the words for the college song.
In 1959 the science laboratories were built and the number of
classrooms increased. In 1967 the main hall was extended to accommodate
the increased number staff, and an extension was made in 1996 to create
offices for the administration and clerical staff. In 1986 a library was
built and named in honour of Mr. Stephen R. Seepersad (Principal
1975-1988). In 1993 a 6th Form block was built, and in 1999 a pavilion
was constructed and named in honour of Mr. Richard Kokaram (Principal
1989-1999).
In 2005 Hillview College won the President's Gold Medal for the
fourth time. Hillview also obtains scholarship places in CXC CSEC
examinations.
Victorious InterCol 2011 Cricket Team: - Hillview
College became the first North East Zone school to win the PowerGen
Secondary Schools Cricket League and swept all other major competitions.
1955 Picture of Hillview College at Sheriff Street, Tunapuna (The School was known as Naparima College North Branch)
