The shake-up of post-primary education will see numbers at Coleraine College quadruple in the next few years.
The non-selective school currently has more empty desks than pupils. It can admit 600 pupils, but only about 245 attend. Overall numbers have fallen in each of the last five years.
Now, the Northern Ireland education minister John O’Dowd has approved a series of proposals that will help breath new life into Coleraine College.
The original area plan by the North Eastern Education and Library Board (NEELB) proposed the college’s closure. Two grammars – Coleraine Academical Institution and Coleraine High – would then combine to create two new co-educational schools, with one selecting by academic ability and the other non-selective.
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