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Drumglass High School

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24-38 Carland Road, Dungannon, BT71 4AA

Non-selective · Mixed · Controlled

Pupils
370
Year 8
60
Council
Mid Ulster

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Children in full-time residence in Northern Ireland given priority over children resident elsewhere.
  2. Free School Meals applicants, proportionate to first-preference FSM applications.
  3. Pupils attending the established feeder primary schools.
  4. Children from other primary schools.
  5. Applicants who are a Child Looked After.
  6. Applicants with a sibling currently attending, including half-siblings.
  7. Applicants for whom Drumglass is the nearest suitable school.
  8. Final tie-breaker: random selection with a clear audit trail.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (55 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.8 in 2024/25, 0.5 in 2025/26, 0.7 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 66%, got 54.8% (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.

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25905611168
2025/2690421043
2026/2790553159

In 2026/27, 55 of the 55 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
21.9%
Special educational needs
103 pupils (64 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
No
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 62.4%, Catholic 13%, other or none 24.6%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
54.8%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
59.5%
3+ A-levels A* to C
none
2+ A-levels A* to E
none
Year 12 pupils counted
84
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: 90 (whole school: 500)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24906262
2024/25907166
2025/26606060

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 5210231

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