Lumen Christi College
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| Established | 1997 |
| Type | Grammar School |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| President | Caroline Devine, PhD |
| Principal | Pat O'Doherty |
| Board of Governors | The Very Reverend Ignatius McQuillan & Aideen Campbell |
| Location | Bishop Street Derry County Londonderry BT48 6UJ Northern Ireland |
| LEA | Western Education and Library Board |
| Staff | 75 |
| Students | 850 apx |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11 to 18 |
| Houses | Cashel, Durrow, Kells, Slemish |
| School colours | & |
| Website | http://www.lumenchristicollege.co.uk |
Founded in September 1997, Lumen Christi College is a co-educational Catholic grammar school in Derry, Northern Ireland. The school is located at the site of the old St. Columb's College.
In both 2005 and 2006, Lumen Christi topped the GCSE and A-Level results league tables in Northern Ireland, and in 2006 was 12th overall in the UK of Secondary State schools. [1]
The school kept up its 100% record of being top school in Northern Ireland in 2007, when it was also named 14th best school state school in the UK [2] The School is not only successful academically but also boasts several swimming gala awards as well as The British Telecom Faul Gaelic Cup won in 2005 and the North West Rugby blitz title recently in January 2007.
The school is made up of just over 800 students, and 50 teachers. It is always over-subscribed at post 11+ Level and over 30 students were rejected with As last year.
In 2007 the School's Bar Mock Trials team won not only Northern Ireland's competition beating Methodist College Belfast but also won the National Competition in Cardiff. They were helped by local judge, Corinne Philpott.[3]
In late 2007, the Bar Mock Trial team, almost completely revamped, repeated their success from the previous year by winning the Belfast heat of the overall competition. However, they were denied a place in the final trial of the national finals in Liverpool on points difference.
[edit] Controversy
In April 2008, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, Séamus Hegarty, the Minister for Education, Caitríona Ruane (Sinn Féin), along with the Irish National Teachers' Organisation trade union, criticised the Board of Governors of Lumen Christi College for announcing their intention to continue academic selection after the abolition of the 11-plus examination.[4] Principal, Pat O'Doherty, responded that the school intends to go ahead with its testing plans, and that the education minister has no legal authority to stop them.[5]
