Summerhill College

Summerhill College is a Roman Catholic voluntary secondary school for boys located in the town of Sligo in northwest Ireland.HistoryThe school was founded in 1857 by the then Bishop of Elphin Dr Laurence Gillooly in Summerhill, Athlone, County Roscommon. It moved to temporary accommodation in Sligo in 1880 (Quay Street) and to a new school building (the present site) in 1892. Although the official name of the school is the College of the Immaculate Conception, it has always been known locally as Summerhill or Summerhill College.The College has been a Diocesan College—historically an entry school for those wishing to train as priests for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Elphin. The college took in both boarders and day boys until the dormitories were closed in the 1980s due to economic circumstances.CurriculumThe school offers the traditional Junior and Leaving Certificate cycles to its pupils. It also provides other options such as Junior Certificate School Programme (JCSP), Transition Year, Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (LCVP) and Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA).