New School

Ballinamore Schools have operated a unique system of common enrolment since 1968.  During the nineties school management and various Parent Association committees lobbied for a single site school.  As part of educational rationalization in the county it was announced in 2001 by the Minister for Education & Science that Ballinamore Vocational School and Fatima & Felims Secondary School were to be officially amalgamated as a Community School.  A protracted and intensive lobbying campaign eventually yielded in 2007, the purchase of a site along the road to Enniskillen and in 2008 the commitment to a new single site school as part of the third bundle of schools to be built under the Public Private Partnership model.  This bundle of schools – eight in total are scheduled for build in 2012.  The process is well under way with outline planning permission obtained and the tendering process underway since August 2010.

Four expressions of interest have been received and officials have indicated that the new school will be open in August 2013.