St Joseph's RC Academy
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St. Joseph's Academy is a Roman Catholic secondary school in New Farm Loch, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. St. Conval's High School was later annexed with St. Joseph's in October 1998 and became known as St. Joseph's Cumnock Campus. In 2004 however St. Joseph's Cumnock Campus was shut down due to falling attendance figures, and the town's Catholic children now attend the original St. Joseph's Academy in Kilmarnock, which now serves the entire Secondary Catholic population of East Ayrshire.
The original school dates from 1955 and comprises two large buildings surrounded by an abundance of play areas and playing fields and it contains all the modern facilities required to give young people an education appropriate to their needs.
There is currently major redevelopment going on within the school grounds with a new school being built in the playing fields. This new build will also incorporate a new primary school, taking the pupils from St. Columba's and St. Matthew's. It is due to open in time for the 2008 school year.
Currently the school takes its pupils from the local Catholic primary schools, not just from Kilmarnock but the surrounding towns and villages. These schools are:
- St. Columba's, St. Matthew's and Mount Carmel in Kilmarnock
- St. Sophia's in Galston
- St. Patrick's in Auchinleck
- St. John's in Cumnock.
Four of the five members of successful rock band The Termites went to St Joseph's Academy during the 1980's.
