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Glenlola Collegiate

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2 Valentine Road, Bangor, BT20 4TH

Grammar · Girls · Controlled · SEAG member

Pupils
1,018
Year 8
157
Council
Ards and North Down

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Preference to girls with a SEAG TSAS (or a TSAS determined under special circumstances or special provisions).
  2. Places awarded in strict rank order of TSAS, highest first, up to the admission number of 157.
  3. Girls without a TSAS are considered after TSAS holders, if places remain.
  4. Sub-criterion (i): girls for whom Glenlola Collegiate is the first preference on the Transfer Application.
  5. Sub-criterion (ii): sister enrolled at Glenlola Collegiate, or brother enrolled at Bangor Grammar School, for the current school year.
  6. Sub-criterion (iii): attends, or attended in the current year, a primary school in the Ards & North Down Borough Council Area.
  7. Sub-criterion (iv): normal place of residence (address at the start of the Transfer Application) in Ards & North Down Borough.
  8. Sub-criterion (v): eldest child of the family eligible to apply, at the date of application (details to be provided).
  9. Sub-criterion (vi): other girls attending primary schools outside the Ards & North Down Borough Council Area.
  10. Sub-criterion (vii): all other girls.
  11. Final place only, if still tied: computer-generated random number, highest number allocated the place.

The school's criteria

Getting in

30 of the 171 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.

For September 2026 entry, 197 applications were considered for 157 places. Places ran out at criterion iv: Sub-criterion iv resolved a three-way tie for the final places; its meaning is not printed. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1 in 2024/25, 1.2 in 2025/26, 1.3 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 96%, got 94% (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.

School life

  • School day 8.45am to 3.15pm source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25157138146157
2025/261571601013157
2026/27157171197157

In 2026/27, 141 of the 171 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
8.3%
Special educational needs
29 pupils (10 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 66.8%, Catholic 5.5%, other or none 27.7%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
94%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
94%
3+ A-levels A* to C
75.9%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
149
A-level pupils counted
116

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for 2026.

Year 8 places: 157 (whole school: 1,100)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24157174157
2024/25157193157
2025/26157185158

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

School's note: *The Total Admissions for year 2026/2027 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). Note: the asterisk in the table sits on the 2025/26 row, but the footnote text names 2026/2027 as printed.

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria. SEAG Entrance Assessments (November 2025), Total Standardised Age Score (TSAS) used as primary basis. Single-paper pupils may be considered under Special Provisions.

Open event: Thursday 22 January 2026 at 6.45pm, parents and P7 girls welcome, Headmaster's address at 6.45pm and 7.45pm in the Main Hall

Sources

DENI reference 4410097

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