St. Andrew's College (Ireland)
| Saint Andrew's College Coláiste Naomh Aindriú |
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| Location | |
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Booterstown, County Dublin Republic of Ireland |
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| Coordinates | 53°18′19″N 6°12′05″W / 53.305416°N 6.201476°WCoordinates: 53°18′19″N 6°12′05″W / 53.305416°N 6.201476°W |
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| Motto |
Ardens Sed Virens (Latin for 'Burning Yet Flourishing') |
| Established | 1894 |
| Headmistress | Joan Kirby |
| Staff | 100+ |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Number of students | Junior School: 265 Senior School: 988 (2011/2012) |
| Colour(s) | Navy Blue and White |
| Website | sac.ie |
St. Andrew's College (Irish: Coláiste Naomh Aindriú) is a co-educational inter-denominational, international day school, founded in 1894 by members of the Presbyterian community, and now located in Booterstown, Dublin, Ireland. The school colours are blue and white.
Founded as a boys' secondary school at the end of the 19th-century by members of the Presbyterian community, St. Andrew's College celebrated its centenary in 1994. It was on 8 January 1894 that the College opened its doors at 21 St. Stephen's Green in the centre of Victorian Dublin. This was to be the first of its three locations. The school grew rapidly from its original intake of 69 students. By the end of 1894 there were 203 boys in the school.
At the beginning of 1937 a move to new premises in Wellington Place, Clyde Road, along with a determined effort by past pupils and parents to stave off closure or amalgamation saw a revival in the fortunes of the College. In 1973, the school became co-educational and moved to a new site in Booterstown.
St. Andrew's College has both a primary and secondary school. The secondary school offers both the Leaving Certificate (Ireland) and the International Baccalaureate programme.
Since 1984, St. Andrew's is the only school in Ireland fully accredited by both the European Council of International Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
St. Andrew's is the only school in Ireland to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme. A small number (usually around 70) of the school's students are in the IB programme.
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