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Assumption Grammar School

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24 Belfast Road, Ballynahinch, BT24 8EA

Grammar · Girls · Voluntary · SEAG member

Pupils
947
Year 8
136
Council
Newry, Mourne and Down

Your chances

against these criteria.

How it chooses when it has more applicants than places, in order:

  1. Band 1 applicants, and those with special circumstances or provisions judged comparable to Band 1, admitted first (criterion A).
  2. Band 2 applicants, and comparable special circumstances or provisions cases (criterion B).
  3. Band 3 applicants, and comparable special circumstances or provisions cases (criterion C).
  4. Band 4 applicants, and comparable special circumstances or provisions cases (criterion D).
  5. Band 5 applicants, and comparable special circumstances or provisions cases (criterion E).
  6. Band 6 applicants, and comparable special circumstances or provisions cases (criterion F).
  7. All other applicants, considered after Bands 1 to 6 (criterion G).
  8. Applicants who have or had a sibling at the school, or already accepted for the coming year (priority (i) within a band).
  9. Eldest or only girl in the family, or first girl to transfer to a grammar school (priority (ii)).
  10. Child Looked After (priority (iii)).
  11. Entitled to Free School Meals on the Education Authority register (priority (iv)).
  12. Nearest Catholic grammar school for girls, measured by radial distance (priority (v)).
  13. Final tie-break by randomised order of the initial letter(s) of the surname, then date of birth, then computer selection.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (98 children).

Places depend mostly on the SEAG score, so how many apply says little on its own.

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.2 in 2024/25, 1.4 in 2025/26, 0.9 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 98%, got 98.5% (5+ GCSEs A* to C with English and maths, 2024/25).

0%50%100%0%20%40%Pupils on free school meals
Each dot is a grammar school with 30 or more Year 12 pupils. The dashed line is what schools usually get at each free school meals level.

School life

  • Sport: Football, Basketball, Netball, Badminton source
  • Has a learning support centre source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/251301271417130
2025/261301491314130
2026/271309895112

In 2026/27, 98 of the 98 children who put it first got a place here.

Each child counts once, at the preference their family gave this school. Figures at the end of the admissions procedure, from the Education Authority's analysis of preferences.

Pupils (October 2025)

Free school meals
7%
Special educational needs
119 pupils (28 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 1.4%, Catholic 93.9%, other or none 4.8%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
98.5%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
99.3%
3+ A-levels A* to C
89.7%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
136
A-level pupils counted
117

Source: Department of Education, SAER 2024/25, Open Government Licence.

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 130 (whole school: 910)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24130205141
2024/25130159141
2025/26130177136

Applications count every family that named the school at any preference, not only first preferences.

School's note: * includes Upheld Admission Appeals/DE Temporary Variation Approval/ECB Appeals/SEN students. ** The Total Admissions for year 2025/2026 includes all Year 8 children admitted to the school including those who have a statement of special educational needs and/or may be attending SPiMS.

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 4420086

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