Location

Ballykeigle Primary School was built in 1951, is a rural school, charmingly situated in the country overlooking Strangford Lough in the town land of Ballykeel. It is ideally placed as it is 3 miles from Ballygowan, 3 miles from comber and 5 miles from Killinchy. The school bus collects children who reside en route from Comber to Lisbane and Ballykeigle with a link up service from Killinchy, Balloo, Kilmood and Drumreagh areas.

The accommodation consists of 3 classrooms, one of which is a mobile classroom, an assembly hall / dining room, kitchen, staff room, Principal’s office, secretary’s office and SEN area. Boys’ and girls’ cloakrooms are situated at each end of a wide corridor.

Outdoors, the school has spacious grounds which consists of a large tarmacadam playground and large landscaped lawns which provide much space for play and games. The PTA has provided outdoor adventure playground equipment.

The school has a teaching Principal with two full-time teachers and one part-time teacher. Ancillary staffing consists of a part-time clerical officer, two classroom assistants, two meal supervisors, meal server and caretaker / cleaner.