PLANS to overhaul Catholic secondary schools in west Belfast have been published.
At least three names will disappear as part of a proposed shake-up.
The Irish News last year reported on the plans which, if approved, will see three single-sex post-primary schools merged to form one new 1,000-pupil college.
In addition, St Louise's Comprehensive College, once the largest school for girls in Europe, will admit boys.
It is hoped the new arrangements will be in place by 2018.
The new school will be "in effect an amalgamation" involving St Rose's Dominican College for girls and Corpus Christi College and Christian Brothers' School (CBS) for boys.
The three schools will be "discontinued".
CBS has been through a similar process once before. Two years ago, it was proposed that it and St Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School come together to create a single 11-19 non-selective, post-primary. That plan was abandoned, however, when St Mary's opted to retain selection.
Corpus Christi was created in 1988 through the merger of St Thomas's, St Peter's, St Paul's and Gort Na Mona schools.
The plans are the latest brought forward by Catholic education chiefs in response to the Northern Ireland-wide area-based planning exercise. There are concerns that the north has too many schools and not enough pupils.
The proposal for St Louise's to admit boys was first included in the Catholic Education for All review, published in 2012. At that time, the school welcomed this as an "opportunity to continue to provide high-quality education to all young people in our community irrespective of gender, race, religious affiliation or social background".
Now, it is proposed to reduce the enrolment number from 2,280 to 1,500 and become coeducational. While it can admit up to 2,280 at present, it has about 1,400 pupils.
Grammar schools and two other non-grammars - De La Salle and St Genevieve's - will be unaffected.
Similar schemes are already being progressed in north Belfast, but again these do not involve grammar schools.
