Our Lady and St Patrick's College, Knock

[2] The school opened as St Patrick's College on 4 September 1967 on a 20-acre (81,000 m2) site at Gortgrib in the Cherryvalley area of east Belfast with Fr.

Allen was replaced in the 2008–09 academic year by Dermot G Mullan a former history teacher at the college who had left to be principal at St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick.

[5] The current (2024) chair of the governors is Mr Leo O'Reilly, former Permanent Secretary of Department for Communities in the Northern Ireland Civil Service.

[6] In 2018, it had been ranked joint first in Northern Ireland for its GCSE performance with 100% of its entrants receiving five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C, including the core subjects English and maths.

Lay staff included the BBC broadcaster Seamus McKee, and the widely acknowledged Irish poet Medbh McGuckian, both teachers in the academically and creatively strong English department.