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Loreto College

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Castlerock Road, Coleraine, BT51 3JZ

Grammar · Mixed · Voluntary · Not a SEAG member

Pupils
996
Year 8
167
Council
Causeway Coast and Glens

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Applicants who chose Loreto College as their first preference school.
  2. Applicants with a sibling currently enrolled at the College, or selected for admission in September 2026.
  3. Applicants with a sibling who is a past pupil of the College.
  4. Applicants who are the eldest or only child of the family (see footnote 2 on verification).
  5. Applicants with a parent currently on the permanent staff of the College.
  6. Applicants from four named primary schools directly affected by the closure of St Joseph’s College, Coleraine.
  7. Applicants from the primary schools listed in the table in the document (42 named schools).
  8. Applicants selected using a random tiebreaker (footnote 3).

The school's criteria

Getting in

61 of the 220 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

For September 2026 entry, 250 applications were considered for 160 places. Places ran out at criterion 7: A random online generator allocated the remaining places among feeder-primary applicants. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.1 in 2024/25, 1.2 in 2025/26, 1.6 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 90%, got 83.9% (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

The school runs its own buses. See routes

School life

  • Sport: Athletics, Football, Basketball, Cross-country, Equestrian, Gaelic football, Golf, Hockey, Netball, Rounders, Rugby source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2516017381160
2025/26160182142160
2026/27160220263159

In 2026/27, 159 of the 220 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
14.9%
Special educational needs
126 pupils (31 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 10.1%, Catholic 75.8%, other or none 14.1%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
83.9%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
95.8%
3+ A-levels A* to C
74.3%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
143
A-level pupils counted
101

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
2023/24160167159
2024/25160183160
2025/26160203167

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

School's note: The figures in this table for the years 2023/24 and 2024/25 do not include children who were admitted to the school with a statement of special educational needs. The figures for the year 2025/26 do include children with a statement of special educational needs.

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Open event: Open day Saturday 10 January 2026, 9.30am to 1.00pm.

Sources

DENI reference 3420034

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