Plans to shut an integrated college and open a new school in the same building the very next day have been rejected.
Education minister John O'Dowd last night turned down two separate, but related, proposals.
The first would have involved the closure of Crumlin Integrated College while the second sought to establish the new grant-maintained integrated Camlin College, which would have replaced the existing school.
Crumlin Integrated College was placed into the 'formal intervention' process in February 2010 after inspectors highlighted major deficiencies in leadership, poor teaching standards and exam results.
Principal Annabelle Scott was later removed from her post and sent for training. Parents protested at the school gates upon her return. She was later warned by police to stay away from the school because of a death threat.
It spent the longest continuous period in intervention - almost four and a half years - of any school in the north.
It was proposed that Crumlin Integrated College shut in August 2016. A second, separate proposal intended to create a new integrated college, which would open under different management.
Mr O'Dowd rejected both and said: "I have decided that integrated post-primary provision should remain in Crumlin.
"I acknowledge and understand why the then North Eastern Education and Library Board brought forward the proposal to close the existing school and why the Crumlin Supports Integrated Education Steering Group, in conjunction with the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education, brought forward their proposal to open a new school.
"In turning both down, and allowing Crumlin Integrated College to remain open, I have given the community an opportunity to avail of and support integrated post-primary provision in their area."
