North Coast Integrated College
North Coast Integrated College, Cloyfin Road, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland is an integrated co-educational non-selective secondary school. Angela Passmore is the school's current principal. Context. Integrated Education is a Northern Ireland phenomenon, where traditionally schools were sectarian, either run as Catholic schools or Protestant schools. On as parental request, a school could apply to 'transition' to become Grant Maintained offering 30% of the school places to students from the minority community. Lagan College was the first integrated school to open in 1981. History. North Coast Integrated College opened in 1996 as an  integrated, co- educational,all-ability school available to all without fees or entrance examinations. It is a Grant Maintained Integrated (GMI) School: GMI status is a result of the 1989 Education Reform (NI) Order. The school was inspected in November 2012, ETI described the context of the school: Having accepted that, the report published in April 2013 castigated the school for the youngsters final results. This, and the 21 week delay in publishing the report demoralised the staff. The school made a statement to the Northern Ireland Assembly ETI inquiry questioning: Less than 5% of year 8 pupils entered the  college with the baseline Level 5 maths or Level 5 English, however 57% of year 11 youngsters in 2010, 61% in 2011, and 70% in 2012 achieved the baseline 5 GCSE passes at C and above.