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Belfast Model School for Girls

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35 Dunowen Gardens, Belfast, BT14 6NQ

Non-selective · Girls · Controlled

Pupils
1,056
Year 8
150
Council
Belfast

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. A girl whose sister attends or has attended Belfast Model School for Girls.
  2. A girl whose brother attends or has attended Belfast Boys’ Model School.
  3. A child of the family who is the first girl in the family to transfer to a mainstream secondary (non-grammar) school.
  4. Applicants for whom the school is the closest controlled school, by straight-line distance measured by the Ordnance Survey Office.
  5. All other applicants, selected by an electronic random choice generator if criteria 1 to 4 exceed places.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (145 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 1 in 2024/25, 0.7 in 2025/26, 0.8 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 47%, got 43.9% (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.

Getting there

The school runs its own buses. See routes

School life

  • School day 9am to 3.35pm source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25200169196194
2025/26200129123144
2026/27200145128165

In 2026/27, 145 of the 145 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
55%
Special educational needs
276 pupils (55 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 82.3%, Catholic 1.3%, other or none 16.4%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
43.9%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
63.9%
3+ A-levels A* to C
53.6%
2+ A-levels A* to E
98.2%
Year 12 pupils counted
155
A-level pupils counted
56

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 200 (whole school: 1,100)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24200205200
2024/25200204196
2025/26200150150

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 1210021

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