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Foyle College is a split-site school. The two campuses are at Springtown, Northland Road (which houses the junior school (ages 11–14), and Duncreggan (housing the senior school (ages 14–18)). As a grammar school it admits pupils based on academic selection. The school joined the Association for Quality Education (AQE) which requires prospective pupils to take the AQE Common Entrance exam in order to be admitted to the college from 2010. In 2010 the results of pupils who sat the AQE entrance exam were published. Of successful applicants to Foyle College, only 11 out of the 126 who were admitted into Year 8 achieved the top grade Q1, but 40 pupils who received the lowest grade Q4 were admitted.
In 2011, a re-brand of the school was carried out by the schools governors to reputedly reflect popular usage in the city of Derry, where the school is almost universally known as 'Foyle College'. However, although the school's name and crest was re-branded, the college's legal name will continue to be 'Foyle and Londonderry College'. Deep seated objections with regard to the school's name change have been made to the local press by members of the Londonderry High School Old Girls Association. They claim the change of the college's name amounts to a jettisoning of the link from the former all-girls school, Londonderry High School, and that the name change has been taken by the govenors without any real consultation with them.
All the core subjects, as well as a number of options, are offered up until the end of Key Stage 3 at the Springtown campus. Pupils then transfer to Duncreggan and sit GCSEs. With suitable grades, pupils have the option to study AS and A2 levels in the Sixth Form.
The official religious affiliation of the school is non-denominational. The school is preparing to leave its current locations at Northland Road and Duncreggan Road to move to a purpose built school in the Waterside suburb of Derry in the near future.
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