Jordanstown Schools

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Jordanstown Schools is a school for children with auditory and visual impairments, including deafness and blindness. It is based in Jordanstown, north of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is non-denominational.

The school is owned by the Ulster Society for Promoting the Education of the Deaf and the Blind. It was founded in 1836 and was originally based in College Street in the city centre. In 1845 in moved to the Lisburn Road, a site now occupied by the medical department of Queen's University. In 1961 it again moved to its present site in Jordanstown, close to the University of Ulster.

The school offers both primary and secondary education, catering for children between 4 and 19.

The current principal is Mrs Ann Magee.