Newpark Comprehensive School

Newpark Comprehensive School (Irish: Scoil Chuimsitheach na Páirce Nua) is a Protestant, non-fee paying, co-educational comprehensive secondary school under Church of Ireland management, situated on Newtown Park Avenue in Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland.

Newpark was established in 1972 primarily to provide free post-primary, co-education for the Church of Ireland (COI) community of South County Dublin and North Wicklow. The school recognises its Protestant background and ethos, and acknowledges the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin as its Patron. However, as a co-educational comprehensive school, Newpark welcomes girls and boys of all religious, social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The school describes itself as celebrating the diversity in academic, creative and practical intelligence in its students.

History

Newpark has a Christian tradition, reflecting its origins within the Protestant tradition, and is under the patronage of the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. The school was established in 1972, when the Department of Education purchased Avoca & Kinsgstown School, an amalgamation of two small private schools. Avoca School in Blackrock was founded in 1892 by A.A.[Albert Augustus] MacDonagh M.A. (1866-1934) who served for a long time as its headmaster, and Kingstown Grammar School in 1894 by the Rev. Matthew Edward Devlin (whose sone John Edward Devlin also served as Kingstons Headmaster).