Education
Craigavon was provided with a number of schools, with capacity for a number of children which never materialised.
- Brownlow Integrated College was one of the first integrated high schools in Northern Ireland
- Drumgor Primary School, controlled primary school
- Lismore Comprehensive School largest school in the world, maintained by the Roman Catholic Church
- Moyallon Primary School
- St. Anthony's Primary School, maintained by the Roman Catholic Church
- St. Brendan's Primary School, maintained by the Roman Catholic Church
- Tullygally Primary School, a mixed religion school. It has about 100 pupils at any one time. It was built by the government with the original founding of Craigavon "city" and was part of the library board. The size of the primary school was reduced in recent years and half of it now accommodates an adult learning centre.
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