Drumragh Integrated College is an integrated mixed-religion, non-selective

secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...

for girls and boys aged from 11 to 18, located at 70 Crevenagh Road,

Omagh Omagh (; from , meaning 'the virgin plain') is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated where the rivers River Drumragh, Drumragh and Camowen River, Camowen meet to form the River Strule, Strule. Northern Ireland's c ...

County Tyrone County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. Its county town is Omagh. Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh, the cou ...

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Context

Integrated Education Integrated education in Northern Ireland refers to the bringing together of children, parents and teachers from both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions in childhood education: the aim being to provide a balanced education, while allowing the ...

is a Northern Ireland phenomenum, where traditionally schools were sectarian, either run as Catholic schools or Protestant schools. On a parental request, a school could apply to 'transition' to become Grant Maintained offering 30% of the school places to students from the minority community.

Lagan College Lagan College is a grant maintained integrated secondary school in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It holds a total of around 1475 students (as of 2024) It was formed in 1981 as the first integrated school in Northern Ireland and contains students o ...

was the first integrated school to open in 1981.

Description

The school had 580 pupils in 2018, with approval to expand to 645 pupils and is within the Western Education and Library Board area. Although mixed-religion, Drumragh College teaches with a Christian ethos. Drumragh College received funding of 20 million pounds for new school facilities in 2001 while it was located at the side of the old Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital. The new modern school started construction in 2007 and was finished in 2009. A plan to expand the school's size Area for more pupils to attend the school was proposed in September 2012 but it was refused by the Minister Of Education.

Staff

The current principal is I. Kirk. Shaun McBride is the chairman of the school's Board of Governors.

Notable former pupils

Janet Devlin Janet Maureen Aoife Devlin (born 12 November 1994) is an Irish singer-songwriter who competed in the eighth series of ''The X Factor'' in 2011, where she finished in fifth place. Her debut album '' Hide & Seek'' was released in 2013. After a s ...

: song artist who came 5th in the X-factor in 2011.

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