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Welcome to Belfast Royal Academy Rugby
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Founded in 1785, Belfast Royal Academy is the oldest school in the city and is now a non-denominational, co-educational, voluntary, day grammar school. The School moved to its present site in North Belfast in 1880. At the time of the Bicentenary celebrations in 1985, there was a Royal Visit to the School and H.R.H. the Princess Anne (as she then was) opened a new kindergarten wing.
Today there are some 1400 pupils in the grammar school and more than 90% of the leavers proceed each year to higher or further education. Former pupils of the School are among the members of almost every university in the United Kingdom.
There is a flourishing extra-curricular life with some seventy different clubs, societies and activities. In games, Academy pupils have represented their country at school level in cricket, athletics, rugby football, golf, swimming, hockey, orienteering, skiing, squash, water-polo, rifle-shooting, sailing, fishing and tennis. There are 400 pupils in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.
