Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden


Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden is a nonprofit organisation that operates two secondary schools on Sint Maarten: Milton Peters College in South Reward and Sundial School in Philipsburg. They are both subsidised by the Sint Maarten government.
Milton Peters has HAVO, VWO, and VSBO classes; the third includes PKL, PBL, TKL classes. The HAVO, VWO, and VSBO-TKL classes are all Dutch medium while other departments have English and Dutch medium classes. MPC is the largest secondary school in Sint Maarten. MPC is the only Sint Maarten secondary school with a Dutch pre-university program.

History

SVOBE was established on February 20, 1974. SVOBE was created as the neutral governing body for a new school created by the merger of the government secondary school John Phillips School and the Catholic secondary school Pastoor Nieuwen Huis School. MPC, which began construction in 1974, opened on August 17, 1976.
The predecessor of Sundial, School for Home Economics, opened in 1966. It became a part of SVOBE in 1976.