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Brownlow Integrated College, Tullygally Road,
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was founded in 1973 as Brownlow High School. In 1991, it became the first secondary school in Northern Ireland to transition from a state-controlled school to an integrated school. Mrs N Stevenson is the school's current principal. Brownlow has about 320 pupils. It is not part of the Craigavon two-tier system. The year 8 intake in 2018 was 64.


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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 phenomenon, where traditionally schools were sectarian,
Lord Baker of Dorking Kenneth Wilfred Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, (born 3 November 1934) is a British politician, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and cabinet minister, including holding the offices of Home Secretary, Education Secretary and Conservat ...
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retrieved 22 July 2007 either run as Catholic schools or Protestant schools. On as 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 an integrated secondary school in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It holds a total of around 1540 students. It was formed in 1981 as the first integrated school in Northern Ireland and contains students of mainly Roman Catholic and ...
was the first integrated school to open in 1981.


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List of integrated schools in Northern Ireland Integrated schools are part of integrated education, an attempt to bring together children from both sides of the primary religious divide in Northern Ireland. They can be existing schools that have converted but remained controlled, or new schoo ...
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List of secondary schools in Northern Ireland This is a list of secondary schools in Northern Ireland, according to the Department of Education (Northern Ireland) The Department of Education (DENI) ( ga, An Roinn Oideachais; Ulster-Scots: ''Männystrie o Lear'') is a devolved Northern Iri ...
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Education in Northern Ireland Education in Northern Ireland differs from education systems elsewhere in the United Kingdom (although it is relatively similar to Wales), but is similar to the Republic of Ireland in sharing in the development of the ''national school'' syste ...


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External links


Brownlow Integrated College Website

NICIE website
Integrated schools in County Armagh Secondary schools in County Armagh {{NorthernIreland-school-stub