 The school occupied spacious buildings on a mature wooded site and its location on the Shore Road at Whitehouse allows easy access on foot, and by public transport from the Greater Newtownabbey area, Greenisland and Belfast.The school had become an important part of the surrounding community and the greatest majority of adolescents from the near Rathcoole (Newtownabbey) Estate attended the school.The School had donated a section of the building to keep the neighbouring Whitehouse Primary School running until the School was rebuilt due to being demolished after an arson attack.