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Hazelwood Integrated College

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70 Whitewell Road, Newtownabbey, BT36 7ES

Non-selective · Mixed · Integrated

Pupils
1,081
Year 8
193
Council
Belfast

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Applicants naming the College as first or second preference. If oversubscribed, criteria 2 to 4 apply in order.
  2. Applicants with a sibling (child of the family) currently at the College.
  3. Applicants who attend, or attended for most of primary school, a Grant Maintained or Controlled Integrated primary school.
  4. Applicants who are the eldest eligible child in the family (verifying letter required).
  5. Tie-break: surname letters in a randomised computer-selected order, then later letters alphabetically, then forename initials.
  6. Final tie-break for identical names: date of birth, eldest first.

The school's criteria

Getting in

7 of the 166 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.3 in 2024/25, 1.2 in 2025/26, 1.1 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 51%, got 63.8% (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.

School life

  • Sport: Football, Rugby, Gaelic football, Basketball, Netball, Dance, Athletics source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25175190218175
2025/26175187125175
2026/27175166165175

In 2026/27, 159 of the 166 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
47.6%
Special educational needs
219 pupils (112 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 44.4%, Catholic 30.6%, other or none 25%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
63.8%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
94.6%
3+ A-levels A* to C
51.6%
2+ A-levels A* to E
98.4%
Year 12 pupils counted
149
A-level pupils counted
64

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: 1,010)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24175272175
2024/25175213175
2025/26175202193

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.

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Open event: Open Day Thursday 8 January, 4pm to 7.30pm; Principal’s address 4.15pm and 6pm.

Sources

DENI reference 1260269

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