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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 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 is what is sometimes known as 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).

The College of the Immaculate Conception was founded by the then Bishop of Elphin, Dr Gillooly in Summerhill, Athlone in 1857. It was transferred to Sligo in 1880 and provided with temporary accommodation in Quay Street, pending the building of a new school. This, the present college, was formally opened in 1892. Popularly, the college has always remained known as "Summerhill". For many decades the College catered for both boarders and dayboys and operated essentially as a junior seminary for the diocese of Elphin. With the introduction of Free Education in 1967, there followed an explosion in student and staff numbers. The number of dayboys soon exceeded the number of boarders and thus a new dynamic resulted.

Summerhill College has a long and noble history of over 150 years educating tens of thousands of pupils from Sligo and the surrounding Diocese of Elphin. The impact these graduates have made in so many disciplines, both nationally and across the globe is a source of great pride but also confirmation of the high standards of the school. Summerhill Alumni Association allows our network of graduates and former pupils to keep up to date with happenings in the college and to connect with former classmates, sharing memories and reigniting old friendships forged during school days. Another aim of the Association is to harness Summerhill’s graduates, who are such powerful ambassadors for the College.

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