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Banbridge High School

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69A Primrose Gardens, Banbridge, BT32 3EW

Non-selective · Mixed · Controlled

Pupils
757
Year 8
110
Council
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Sibling of a pupil in attendance in 2025/26 whose transfer form gives the school as first preference.
  2. Children of current members of staff at the school.
  3. Sibling of a past pupil whose transfer form gives the school as first preference.
  4. Category A pupils (named primaries) naming the school as first preference.
  5. Category B pupils (named primaries) naming the school as first preference.
  6. Category C pupils (all other pupils) naming the school as first preference.
  7. Category A pupils (named primaries) naming the school as second preference.
  8. Category B pupils (named primaries) naming the school as second preference.
  9. Category C pupils (all other pupils) naming the school as second preference.
  10. Category A, B and C pupils naming the school as third preference.
  11. Pupils living nearest to the school, measured as the crow flies on Google Maps.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (76 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.9 in 2024/25, 0.7 in 2025/26, 0.6 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 62%, got 48.2% (5+ GCSEs A* to C with English and maths, 2024/25).

0%50%100%0%40%80%Pupils on free school meals
Each dot is a non-selective school with 30 or more Year 12 pupils. The dashed line is what schools usually get at each free school meals level.

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25136112133128
2025/26136834289
2026/27136763079

In 2026/27, 76 of the 76 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
29.3%
Special educational needs
215 pupils (120 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 70.5%, Catholic 3.3%, other or none 26.2%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
48.2%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
83.6%
3+ A-levels A* to C
67.9%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
110
A-level pupils counted
28

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 136 (whole school: 680)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24136136134
2024/25136136135
2025/26136104110

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

School's note: *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. (SPiMS = Specialist Provision in Mainstream School)

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 5210047

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