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Loreto Grammar School

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10 Brook Street, Omagh, BT78 5HD

Grammar · Girls · Voluntary · SEAG member

Pupils
892
Year 8
132
Council
Fermanagh and Omagh

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Route 1 (academic, max 62 places): ranked by Total Standardised Age Score from SEAG, higher first.
  2. Route 1 tie on TSAS: initial letter of surname from a fixed randomised order.
  3. Route 1 tie-break: identical surnames and forenames, eldest child by date of birth.
  4. Route 1 final tie-break: random computerised selection.
  5. Route 2 (non-academic, min 63 places): applicants naming Loreto Grammar School as 1st preference.
  6. Route 2: applicants with a child of the family currently enrolled at the school.
  7. Route 2: applicants who are the first child of the family eligible to apply to the school.
  8. Route 2: applicants who are a Child Looked After.
  9. Route 2 oversubscription within criteria 2.1 to 2.4: random selection by initial letter of surname.
  10. Route 2 final tie-break: random computerised selection.
  11. Remaining places: applicants who did not name the school as 1st preference, using criteria 2.1 to 2.6 in order.

The school's criteria

Getting in

16 of the 141 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): 0.9 in 2024/25, 1.1 in 2025/26, 1.2 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 92%, got 92% (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.

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2512510610107
2025/2612514110128
2026/2712514130125

In 2026/27, 125 of the 141 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
13%
Special educational needs
77 pupils (17 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 0.7%, Catholic 98%, other or none 1.3%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
92%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
97.6%
3+ A-levels A* to C
73.3%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
125
A-level pupils counted
116

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 125 (whole school: 890)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24125118117
2024/25125114110
2025/26125141132

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

School's note: **The Total Admissions for 2025/26 includes all Year 8 children admitted to the school including those with a statement of special educational needs.

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Open event: Open Night, 22 January 2026

Sources

DENI reference 2420065

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