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Bangor Grammar School

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84 Gransha Road, Bangor, BT19 7QU

Grammar · Boys · Voluntary · SEAG member

Pupils
948
Year 8
142
Council
Ards and North Down

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Boys resident in Northern Ireland are selected before non-residents.
  2. The 135 places are allocated by rank order of SEAG Total Standardised Age Score (TSAS).
  3. Places left after criterion 1 go to non-SEAG applicants under the non-academic criteria in criterion 4.
  4. Ties for the last SEAG place are settled by the non-academic criteria in criterion 4.
  5. Free school meal applicants admitted in proportion to first-preference FSME applications.
  6. Eldest boy, or boy with a sibling at Bangor Grammar or Glenlola, or only child, attending a Table A primary.
  7. Applicants attending a Table A primary school in the Ards and North Down Borough Council area.
  8. Principal residence within the Ards and North Down Borough Council area.
  9. Final tie-break: random selection by disc draw.

The school's criteria

Getting in

14 of the 140 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

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

For September 2026 entry: the lowest SEAG score admitted was 186. source

For September 2026 entry, 163 applications were considered for 135 places. Places ran out at criterion tiebreaker: A blind draw of numbered discs allocated the final place among four tied applicants. EA statement

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

Results for its intake

Expected about 97%, got 95.6% (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.

Getting there

School bus from Bangor Bus Centre, Six Road Ends, Donaghadee, Millisle, Ballywalter, Ballyhalbert, Portavogie, Kirkistown, Newtownards (connecting service). Routes

School life

  • School day 8.45am to 2.55pm source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25135131136135
2025/2613515683135
2026/27135140154135

In 2026/27, 126 of the 140 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
7.4%
Special educational needs
39 pupils (32 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 43.7%, Catholic 5.8%, other or none 50.5%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
95.6%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
95.6%
3+ A-levels A* to C
70.3%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
136
A-level pupils counted
91

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for 2026.

Year 8 places: 135 (whole school: 900)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24135153135
2024/25135150135
2025/26135169142

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)

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria. SEAG entrance assessments (15 and 22 November 2025) TSAS used for rank order of 135 places. Special Circumstances and Special Provision claims must be made with the transfer application.

Open event: Monday 12 January 2026, 6.00pm to 9.00pm; Principal speaks at 6.15pm and 7.30pm (tickets via ticketsource)

Sources

DENI reference 4420015

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