St Olcan's High School
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St Olcan's High School was the name of a Roman Catholic secondary school
Secondary education
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 in Randalstown
Randalstown
Randalstown is a small town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, located between the towns of Antrim and Toome. It had a population of 4,956 people in the 2001 Census. It has a very prominent disused railway viaduct and lies beside Lough Neagh and the Shane's Castle estate...

, County Antrim
County Antrim
County Antrim is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 2,844 km², with a population of approximately 616,000...

, Northern Ireland
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. The school opened in 1958 within the North Eastern Education and Library Board
North Eastern Education and Library Board
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 area.

It was one of two schools which were combined in 2006 to become St Benedict's College
St Benedict's College (County Antrim)
St Benedict's College is a secondary school in Randalstown, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is a Catholic co-educational school within the North Eastern Education and Library Board area which opened in 1958....

. The proposal to amalgamate St Malachy's High School, Antrim and St Olcan's was approved by Angela Smith
Angela Evans Smith
Angela Evans Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament for Basildon from 1997 till she was defeated in 2010...

, the Education Minister for Northern Ireland in March 2006.

The combined school was re-named as St Benedict's College. St Malachy's was demolished and a rebuilding programme began on the St Olcan's site around the same time to accommodate new playing courts for tennis/basketball/soccer, along with new portacabins for additional classrooms.
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