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Bloomfield Collegiate School

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8 Astoria Gardens, Belfast, BT5 6HW

Grammar · Girls · Controlled · SEAG member

Pupils
763
Year 8
115
Council
Belfast

Open events

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Places allocated in rank order of SEAG TSAS, highest first, up to the admission number.
  2. Child of the family enrolled in the school on 1 September 2025 or accepted for September 2026.
  3. Eldest girl in the family eligible to transfer to a mainstream post-primary school in September 2026 (verification required).
  4. Child of the family enrolled in Years 8-14 at an all-boys post-primary school (verification required).
  5. Children transferring from listed primary schools admitted in three of the last five years or within three miles walking distance.
  6. Computer-based random ranking used as final tie-breaker where earlier criteria do not resolve the final place.

The school's criteria

Getting in

36 of the 133 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: places by score went to 186 and above; the lowest score admitted was 185. source

For September 2026 entry, 165 applications were considered for 110 places. Places ran out at criterion 2.3 (i-v): One applicant at score 185 admitted after the tie-break criteria. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.1 in 2024/25, 1.8 in 2025/26, 1.5 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 92%, got 95.2% (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.

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2511084288110
2025/261101304420110
2026/271101331517110

In 2026/27, 97 of the 133 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
12.7%
Special educational needs
43 pupils (24 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 57.1%, Catholic 9.2%, other or none 33.7%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
95.2%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
97.1%
3+ A-levels A* to C
68.8%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
104
A-level pupils counted
77

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 110 (whole school: 730)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24110124113
2024/25110119113
2025/26110194115

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

School's note: *Includes statemented pupils, those admitted under appeal, or at the direction of the `Exceptional Circumstances Body’

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria. Uses SEAG Entrance Assessment TSAS; both papers required, single-paper pupils considered under Special Provision.

Open event: Tuesday 13 January 2026, 6.00pm to 9.00pm

Sources

DENI reference 1410315

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