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Bangor Academy & Sixth Form College

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2 Castle Park Road, Bangor, BT20 4TB

Non-selective · Mixed · Controlled

Pupils
1,867
Year 8
292
Council
Ards and North Down

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Pupils with a 'child of the family' enrolled at the school (name and date of birth must be on the application).
  2. Pupils whose parents are permanent employees of the school (anyone employed there for at least 6 months).
  3. Pupils attending a Group A traditional feeder primary school.
  4. Pupils attending a Group B traditional feeder primary school.
  5. Applicants residing in catchment areas BT19, BT20, BT21 or BT23 for whom Bangor Academy is the nearest controlled all-ability school.
  6. All other pupils.
  7. Tie-break stage 1: Bangor Academy named as first or second preference on the transfer application.
  8. Tie-break stage 2: surname initial in a randomly devised letter order, then forenames as on the birth certificate.

The school's criteria

Getting in

4 of the 199 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

For September 2026 entry, 269 applications were considered for 262 places. Places ran out at criterion 4: Criterion 4 was oversubscribed; first/second preference and then random-alphabet tie breaks selected the remaining applicants. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.1 in 2024/25, 1.2 in 2025/26, 1 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 64%, got 51.1% (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
2024/25262256304263
2025/26262238577263
2026/27262199619262

In 2026/27, 195 of the 199 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
25.3%
Special educational needs
172 pupils (129 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 56.4%, Catholic 3.3%, other or none 40.3%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
51.1%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
73%
3+ A-levels A* to C
44.8%
2+ A-levels A* to E
98.1%
Year 12 pupils counted
270
A-level pupils counted
154

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for 2026.

Year 8 places: 262 (whole school: 1,700)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24272333291
2024/25263321292
2025/26262341293

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

School's note: *Includes children admitted with a statement of SEN and Temporary Variation approved by DE

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria. The Year 8 criteria do not reference SEAG TSAS or any entrance assessment score.

Open event: Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 January 2026, 7.00pm to 9.00pm; Principal's address at 7.00pm and 8.00pm each evening.

Sources

DENI reference 4210296

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