St Cecilia's College

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St Cecilia's College is a secondary school located in Derry, Northern Ireland. It is a Catholic-maintained girls school with an enrolment of 947 pupils aged 11-18 and is in the heart of the Creggan area of Derry. It has 60 teaching staff. The college has decanted to the Northland Road to facilitate the construction of a new building which should be ready by September 2008. It is within the Western Education and Library Board area.

In March 2001 a programme for the extension and refurbishment of the College was announced under Public-private partnership arrangements. In March 2006 it was announced that the College would be granted specialist status from September 2006. As a specialist school it will receive £100 per pupil for the four years of designation and a £100,000 capital grant to support development of the specialism.