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Main Street, Dungiven, BT47 4LF

Non-selective · Mixed · Irish-medium

Pupils
364
Year 8
60
Council
Causeway Coast and Glens

Open events

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Pupils who attended an Irish-medium primary school.
  2. Children of compulsory school age who use Irish as the common communicative medium with at least one parent or guardian.
  3. Pupils who have a sister or brother at the school.
  4. Pupils who are the eldest child in the family.
  5. Remaining pupils ranked by order of preference, with the school as first preference.
  6. Remaining pupils chosen by age, with the eldest selected first.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (50 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 1 in 2024/25, 0.7 in 2025/26, 0.6 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 68%, got 78.8% (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
2024/2565651066
2025/2680520052
2026/2780501051

In 2026/27, 50 of the 50 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
18.4%
Special educational needs
77 pupils (22 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Rural

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 0%, Catholic 97.5%, other or none 2.5%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
78.8%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
92.3%
3+ A-levels A* to C
61.5%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
52
A-level pupils counted
26

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 80 (whole school: 400)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24656464
2024/25657272
2025/26806060

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 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 (Specialist Provision in Mainstream Schools)

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 2240319

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