St Paul’s College in Kilrea and nearby St Mary’s College in Clady are both to be “discontinued” to make way for a new, larger Catholic school in Co Derry.
An area-based planning exercise was carried out across the North to identify a network of sustainable schools better able to offer pupils a wide subject choice
Although the two Derry schools consistently produce excellent results and have steady enrolment numbers, they are considered too small to be long-term viable.
Government’s sustainable school policy states that post-primary providers should have 500 or more pupils.
Both schools are below this, although numbers are capped at 350.
St Paul’s emerged as the North’s best non-grammar GCSE performer in 2010, when a record-breaking 98 per cent of pupils achieved five or more subjects at grades A* to C.
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