St Patrick's College, Ballymena

St Patrick's College is a Catholic maintained co-educational school located in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

The school was opened on 8 September 1959 by Dr Daniel Mageean, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor.

As the school grew in size and pupils stayed on post-16, it changed its name to St. Patrick's College offering a broader range of courses.

As part of the Ballymena Learning Together consortium[3] of schools students can access optional courses in Applied Business, Chemistry, Environmental Technology, Government & Politics, Engineering, Moving Image Arts, Psychology, Physics, Business Studies, Drama, Geography, Mathematics, Music, and Sociology.

[4] With the arrival of the children of immigrants from Eastern Europe, the school has appointed Polish teachers and Czech, Romanian and Bulgarian teaching assistants.