[2] In preparation for the amalgamation a £7 million refurbishment of the Girls' School was carried out.
However, the school is split between two sites, set well back from any main road, and this encourages vandalism which by March 2005 had cost thousands of pounds.
[4] The school was mentioned in the House of Commons in July 2006 when the Northern Ireland Minister Maria Eagle, in answer to a question from Gregory Campbell, stated that the main buildings were then 49 years old.
"[6] However, in a further follow-up inspection in January 2007 they found that the school had made a range of substantial improvements in the past year.
[7] Student Gordon Patton was a member of the Northern Ireland under-18 football squad in 2006-07.