 It is the 44th integrated school to be created in the province and provides education for over 530 Catholic and Protestant children.East Antrim is considered the only area in Northern Ireland in which the separate communities of that area have become more polarised since The Troubles began.Under the "Education Reform Order (NI), 1989" a school wishing to obtain Grant Maintained Integrated status must convince the Department of Education that it can draw a minimum of 30% of its population from the minority tradition of the area it wishes to serve.