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Foyle College

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67A Limavady Road, Londonderry, BT47 6LR

Grammar · Mixed · Voluntary · SEAG member

Pupils
893
Year 8
137
Council
Derry City and Strabane

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Applicants resident in Northern Ireland at proposed admission are considered before other applicants.
  2. Admission in rank order of TSAS (as amended by Special Circumstances or allocated under Special Provisions), highest first.
  3. Tie-break at equal mark: sibling who is a pupil in the School or will be in the year under consideration.
  4. Tie-break at equal mark: transferring from a listed contributory primary school.
  5. Tie-break at equal mark: eldest child in the family, as evidenced on the transfer application.
  6. Tie-break at equal mark: other applicants ranked by date of birth, eldest first.
  7. Applicants who did not sit the SEAG test are assessed under the same criteria if places remain unfilled.

The school's criteria

Getting in

45 of the 162 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.

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.2 in 2024/25, 1.6 in 2025/26, 1.4 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 93%, got 100% (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.

Getting there

School bus from Foyle Street Bus Station, Abbeydale and surrounding areas. Routes

School life

  • Sport: Rugby, Cricket, Hockey source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2512614472126
2025/26126186112126
2026/27126162124126

In 2026/27, 117 of the 162 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%
Special educational needs
54 pupils (37 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 38.3%, Catholic 41%, other or none 20.7%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
100%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
100%
3+ A-levels A* to C
79.2%
2+ A-levels A* to E
98.1%
Year 12 pupils counted
133
A-level pupils counted
106

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 126 (whole school: 850)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24126141132
2024/25126161135
2025/26126206137

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

School's note: * Total admissions include pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Need and those pupils admitted under the Appeals process.

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Open event: Open Evening Saturday 10 January 2026, P7 at 9:30am and P6 at 10:45am

Sources

DENI reference 2420229

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