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Our Lady of Lourdes School Ballymoney | |
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Address | |
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Castle Street, , BT53 6JX | |
Coordinates | 55°04′01″N6°31′18″W / 55.06696°N 6.521633°W |
Information | |
Type | Secondary School |
Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
Established | 1964 |
Local authority | Education Authority (North Eastern) |
Chairperson | Mr. Gregor Kerr |
Principal | Mr. Simon Smyth |
Vice Principal | Mr. Sean Stewart |
Staff | 80 approx. |
Gender | co-educational |
Age | 11to 16 |
Enrollment | 400 approx |
Colour(s) | |
Website | ourladyoflourdesballymoney |
Our Lady of Lourdes School is a secondary school located in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
The school offers the full range of subjects at both GCSE and A-Level. It partners with the neighbouring Ballymoney High School and Dalriada School in the conduct of projects and the delivery of certain subjects. [1]
The school provides the opportunity to participate in a full range of sports including hurling, Netball, Gaelic Football, Soccer, Camogie, Athletics, Table tennis, Hockey and Rugby. It also offers various arts activities including Music, Dance, Drama, Glee Choir, Irish Dancing. [2]
Our Lady of Lourdes School employs approximately eighty people. At present, the Senior Leadership Team consists of the following staff members:
Principal: Mr. Simon Smyth.
Assistant Principal: Mr. Sean Stewart.
Senior Teacher Leaders: Mr. Sean Forrest & Miss Susan Coyles.
The current Chairperson of the Board of Governors is Mr. Gregor Kerr.
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. [3]