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Fort Hill Integrated College

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Belfast Road, Lisburn, BT27 4TL

Non-selective · Mixed · Integrated

Pupils
833
Year 8
123
Council
Lisburn and Castlereagh

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Children transferring from a grant maintained or controlled integrated primary school.
  2. Children with a child of the family currently enrolled at the school (names must be indicated on the application).
  3. Children residing in listed BT postcode areas (BT10, BT11, BT17, BT26, BT27, BT28, BT29, BT67) or for whom the school is the nearest integrated post-primary school.
  4. Children who are the eldest child of the family eligible to apply for admission.
  5. Other applicants.
  6. Tie-break: initial letter of surname from a randomised list, applied from the start of the list, then subsequent letters.
  7. Tie-break: chronological order of dates of birth, oldest first, for the last remaining place(s).

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (75 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.6 in 2024/25, 0.7 in 2025/26, 0.7 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 60%, got 49.6% (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.

Getting there

School bus from Lisburn, Aghalee, Maghaberry, Ballynahinch, Crumlin, Ballinderry, Craigavon, Dromara, Dromore, Hillsborough, Drumbo, Dundrod, Stoneyford, Finaghy, Moira, Milltown, Twinbrook, Dunmurry, Hilden, Lambeg, Derriaghy, Seymour Hill, West Belfast. Routes

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2516067131090
2025/26160801614110
2026/27160752112108

In 2026/27, 75 of the 75 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
32.7%
Special educational needs
160 pupils (101 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 51.3%, Catholic 10.1%, other or none 38.7%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
49.6%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
76.7%
3+ A-levels A* to C
43.8%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
129
A-level pupils counted
32

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 160 (whole school: 850)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24160184165
2024/25160121109
2025/26160114123

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 4250072

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