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City of Armagh High School

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Alexander Drive, Armagh, BT61 7JH

Non-selective · Mixed · Controlled

Pupils
378
Year 8
64
Council
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

Open events

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Pupils attending one of ten named feeder primary schools.
  2. Applicants with a sibling currently attending the school.
  3. Children for whom the school is the nearest controlled secondary school to their normal residence.
  4. Other children.
  5. Tie-break: surname initial letter order from a fixed list, then subsequent letters, then forename initials.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

1 of the 26 children who put it first was not offered a place in 2026/27.

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.4 in 2024/25, 0.4 in 2025/26, 0.3 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 63%, got 26.6% (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.

School life

  • Sport: Hockey, Football, Netball, Rugby, Basketball, Dance, Badminton, Athletics, Tennis source
  • Has a learning support centre source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25115346242
2025/26115405045
2026/27115268235

In 2026/27, 25 of the 26 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
28%
Special educational needs
122 pupils (76 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
No
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 45.8%, Catholic 10.3%, other or none 43.9%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
26.6%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
58.2%
3+ A-levels A* to C
none
2+ A-levels A* to E
none
Year 12 pupils counted
79
A-level pupils counted
0

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 115 (whole school: 650)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/241157474
2024/251154646
2025/261156868

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.

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 5210121

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