Holy Cross College is a co-ed bilateral school

Partially selective school (England)

In England, a partially selective school is one of a few dozen state-funded secondary schools that select a proportion of their intake by ability or aptitude, permitted as a continuation of arrangements that existed prior to 1997....

 in Strabane

Strabane

Strabane , historically spelt Straban,is a town in west County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It contains the headquarters of Strabane District Council....

, County Tyrone

County Tyrone

Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern day County Londonderry east of the River Foyle. The majority of County Londonderry was carved out of Tyrone between 1610-1620 when that land went to the Guilds of London to set up profit making schemes based on...

, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

. It contains over 1500 pupils and over 90 members of staff.

History

Holy Cross College was created in 2003 with the amalgamation of Strabane's three Catholic post-primary schools, the Convent Grammar School, St Colman's High School and Our Lady of Mercy High School. Mrs Maria Doherty took the job of principal after Christmas 2008 when the College's first principal, Mr Sean Bradley retired.

External links

• Holy Cross College website UK
• http://www.holy-cross-college.com/Holy Cross College website

  Facilities

  Holy Cross College has the best known facilities in Northern Ireland. In its grounds it has 1 all weather pitch, 2 grass pitches, 5 tennis courts, 2 gymnasiums and 1 sports hall. The actual school itself has over 100 classrooms each able to hold 30 or more pupils. this has put Holy Cross at the top of its intake from strabane. Every year it takes in more than 250 pupils. Its largest ever intake of pupils was in the year 2010 when the school was overrun with 297 pupils. The car park outside of the school can hold around 100 cars (including the teachers car parks].