Our Lady of Lourdes High School, Ballymoney

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

Our Lady of Lourdes School Ballymoney
Address
Castle Street, Ballymoney , BT53 6JX Northern Ireland
Coordinates	55.06696°N 6.521633°W / 55.06696; -6.521633
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	11 to 16
Enrollment	400 approx
Colour(s)
Website	ourladyoflourdesballymoney.com

Academics

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]

Extra curriculum

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]

Staff

Our Lady of Lourdes School employs approximately eighty. 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 Governers is Mr. Gregor Kerr.

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.^[3]