Our Lady of Lourdes High School, Ballymoney

Our Lady of Lourdes School Ballymoney
Location
Castle Street Ballymoney , BT53 6JX Northern Ireland
Coordinates	55°04′01″N6°31′18″W / 55.06696°N 6.521633°W / 55.06696; -6.521633
Information
Type	Secondary School
Motto	Caring, Sharing, Learning together to meet the future
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic
Established	1964
Local authority	Education Authority (North Eastern)
Chairperson	Gregor Kerr
Principal	Simon Smyth [1]
Staff	140 approx.
Gender	co-educational
Age	11to 16
Enrollment	400 approx
Colour
Website	ourladyoflourdesballymoney.com

Our Lady of Lourdes School is a secondary school in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Academics

The school offers subjects at GCSE and A-Level. It partners with the neighbouring Ballymoney High School and Dalriada School for projects and the delivery of some subjects. ^[2]

Extra curriculum

The school offers sports including hurling, netball, Gaelic Football, soccer, camogie, athletics, table tennis, hockey and rugby, and arts activities including music, dance, drama, glee choir and Irish Dancing. ^[3]

Inspection

The standard inspection of the school by the Education and Training Inspectorate in 2015 found the school's overall effectiveness to have a high level of capacity for sustained improvement, and achievements and standards, provision for learning, and leadership and management all to be very good. The report described the school's performance in GCSE English language, history and mathematics at grades A*-C as significantly above average and the standards in GCSE English language as outstanding. ^[4]

References

1. Smyth, S. "Principals Welcome". Our Lady of Lourdes School. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
2. "The School Aims". Our Lad of Lourdes High School. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
3. "Extra Curricular". Our Lady of Lourdes High School. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
4. "Post-Primary Inspection report" (PDF). Education and Training Inspectorate. Retrieved 16 July 2020.