Munro College was founded in 1856, as a free school for boy of low-income families in the Parish of St. Elizabeth, as stipulated in the will of the plantation owners Robert Hugh Munro and Caleb Dickerson. It is one of the most prominent high schools in Jamaica and currently the only boys boarding school on the Island. Munro College has won the Rural Area Da Costa Cup.

Trophy seven times (1950-52,1957,1960-61 and 1964) and Olivier Shield over nineteen times dating back to 1911, two years after the competition was first held.