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7 Beechview Park, Belfast, BT12 6FD

Non-selective · Mixed · Irish-medium

Pupils
1,009
Year 8
148
Council
Belfast

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Priority to pupils who attended an Irish-medium primary school.
  2. Priority to pupils who identified the school as their first preference.
  3. Priority to pupils with a brother, sister or child of the family attending the school.
  4. Remaining pupils ranked by order of preference (second, third, fourth etc.).
  5. If still oversubscribed, ranked by straight-line distance to the school as the closest Irish-medium post-primary school.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (135 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.1 in 2024/25, 0.9 in 2025/26, 0.9 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 51%, got 56.9% (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.

School life

  • Sport: Gaelic football, Hurling, Camogie, Football, Athletics 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
2024/2515014875159
2025/2615012193133
2026/2715013551141

In 2026/27, 135 of the 135 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
49.1%
Special educational needs
480 pupils (109 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant hidden (fewer than 5 pupils), Catholic 94%, other or none not published

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
56.9%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
74.4%
3+ A-levels A* to C
27.3%
2+ A-levels A* to E
67.3%
Year 12 pupils counted
160
A-level pupils counted
55

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 150 (whole school: 910)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24150174188
2024/25150159180
2025/26150133148

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

School's note: * includes children with a statement of SEN. ** The Total Admissions for year 2025/2026 include 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 1240291

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