Established 1880 Phone +44 28 9267 2311 Motto Esperance | Website www.wallacehigh.org Founded 1880 Province Ulster | |
Type Grammar school, top five grammar schools in the UK and Ireland. Address 12a Clonevin Park, Lisburn BT28 3AD, UK Similar Friends School Lisburn, Jem Swim School, Grosvenor Grammar School, Lisnagarv High School, Dro High School Profiles | ||
The Wallace High School is a co-educational grammar school in Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
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It was founded in 1880 by a bequest from the estate of Sir Richard Wallace, local landowner and Unionist MP, as the Lisburn Intermediate and University School on a site fronting the Antrim Road. A board of trustees took charge in 1900 to oversee the development of the growing school and, when they renamed it in 1942 in memory of its founder, they adopted the word Esperance as the school's motto from the Wallace coat of arms.
The post-war years witnessed rapid growth in pupil numbers and consequent accommodation provision. Land was purchased at Clonevin Park, initially for playing fields, and when the Antrim Road site proved inadequate, the decision was taken to build a new school in these extensive grounds.
Pupils and staff moved to the new building in 1976, and there are 1160 pupils in the grammar school and 200 in the preparatory department.
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Wallace High School is noted for men's hockey with wins in the Burney Cup, McCullough Cup and a single win in the All Ireland Championship in 1987-88. In 2011 the hockey girls created history by reaching the final of the Ulster Senior Schoolgirls' Cup for the first time, only to lose on penalties.
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