Kilkeel High School

Kilkeel High School is a voluntary controlled Protestant secondary school located in the heart of the Mournes in Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is within the Southern Education and Library Board area.

Kilkeel High has a successful hockey team and the school fields teams in competitions from U-13 to an U-18 1st XI. Despite being a comprehensive state school, it competes in the Cup competitions dominated by the powerhouse grammar schools in Ulster, and the school regularly qualifies for the "All-Ireland" schools hockey tournament. In 2001 the boys 1st XI reached the final of the prestigious McCullough Cup and despite a brave performance, they eventually lost in a penalty shoot-out.

Kilkeel High school also competes at rugby. All age groups in the school also compete locally at football. The rugby team reached the high schools cup semi-final in which they played against 5 mile town. The team was beaten narrowly due to refereeing errors.

Pupils from the school regularly qualify for County and "All-Ireland" athletics events including cross-country which the school has experienced great success in, in recent years.

In 2006 a team from Kilkeel High won the Business and Professional Women UK National Public Speaking Championship. The women's speaking team from Kilkeel has been very successful in recent years, winning various local and national competitions.

In 1981 Kilkeel High School students erected a memorial to the victims of the 1916 Carlingford Lough disaster.

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