Three post-primary schools in Co Armagh and two struggling high schools in Co Antrim are the latest to be told change is on its way.
The most-recent shake-up concerns unions who only last week urged education authorities in the North to stall their “headlong rush” to close and merge schools. Now, a total of 27 secondary schools across the North have been approved for closure or amalgamation since government backed a radical review of education.
The Bain Report recommended the minimum enrolment for post-primary schools in years 8 to 12 should be 500 pupils.
Monkstown Community School and Newtownabbey Community High School have been told they will be shut down and replaced by a new school for the area. Both schools are currently carrying significant numbers of unfilled places.
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