Glenlola Collegiate School

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Glenlola Collegiate School

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Address Castle Park
Bangor
BT20 4TH
Phone (028) 9147 5340
Fax (028) 9147 5349
Headmaster Mr R. Finlay
Vice Principal Miss S. Sleath
School type Grammar
School Board SEELB
Location Bangor, Northern Ireland, UK
Enrollment Approximately 1100

Glenlola Collegiate School is an all-girls, single sex grammar school in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The school was founded as a school for girls in approximately 1880, and since has become a well respected grammar school in the area. Especially well known for some of the best exam and extra curricular results in the province, one of Glenlola's best known past pupils was Blue Peter presenter Zöe Salmon.

The school has a strong house system with 6 houses: Hamilton, Dufferin, Clanmorris, Ward, Weir and Harte.

In 2002, it was ranked as the second best controlled school in Northern Ireland and twenty ninth in the whole UK according to The Sunday Times Parent Power. In 2003, the school was visited by Prince Andrew, Duke of York.

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