Coleraine Academical Institution (CAI), styled locally as Coleraine Inst, is a voluntary grammar school for boys, situated in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Coleraine Academical Institution occupies a 70-acre (280,000 m2) site on the Castlerock Road, where it was originally founded in 1860. It was, for many years, a boarding school until the boarding department closed in 1999. It is one of eight Northern Irish schools represented on the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). The school has an enrollment of 778 pupils, aged 11–19, as of 2012. The school is generally regarded for its high academic standards and extensive sporting facilities, including 33-acre (130,000 m2) playing fields, indoor swimming pool, boat house, rugby pavilion, sports pavilion and gymnasium. The school has an extensive past pupil organisation, "The Coleraine Old Boys' Association", which has several branches across the world.
Coleraine Inst is nine times winner of the Ulster Schools Cup,. the world's second oldest rugby competition. The school has competed in the competition every year since 1876.
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