Educational Profile
Banbridge District lies within the Southern Education and Library Board and is home to thirty-one publicly-funded educational establishments. This includes: three pre-primary nurseries; twenty-one primary schools (of which ten are “controlled” primaries, one is a “grant-maintained integrated” primary, and the other ten are “maintained” primaries); five post-primary institutions (of which one is a maintained secondary, two are controlled secondary schools, one is a controlled grammar school, and one is a grant-maintained integrated school). There is also a special needs school in Banbridge catering for pupils aged five to nineteen, which lies adjacent to one of six campuses belonging to the Southern Regional College.
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