An area plan proposes to create three new co-educational post-primary schools for north Belfast.
This involves merging two schools – one for boys and one for girls – while making two others co-ed.
Parents are unhappy, however, and hope to convince the North’s education minister John O’Dowd to reject the shake-up.
Their main concern is that the reorganisation as tabled will mean single-sex education will only be an option for those who pass the 11-plus and go to grammar school.
North Belfast has two grammar schools – Dominican College for girls and St Malachy’s for boys – and neither will take part in the area plan.
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