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Markethill High School

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61 Mowhan Road, Markethill, BT60 1RQ

Non-selective · Mixed · Controlled

Pupils
523
Year 8
103
Council
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

Open events

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Pupils from one of twelve named local contributory primary schools.
  2. Children who have a child of the family currently enrolled at the school.
  3. Children for whom the school is the nearest controlled secondary school to their normal place of residence.
  4. Children of permanent members of the teaching and non-teaching staff.
  5. Other children.
  6. Tie-break: permanent residence closest to the school, measured as the crow flies.
  7. Tie-break: initial letter of surname from a randomised letter list, then subsequent letters and forename initials.

The school's criteria

Getting in

7 of the 102 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.1 in 2024/25, 1 in 2025/26, 1.1 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 71%, got 83% (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
2024/251009882103
2025/261009932100
2026/2710010261100

In 2026/27, 95 of the 102 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
13.2%
Special educational needs
102 pupils (38 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
No
Area
Rural

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 85.1%, Catholic 3.6%, other or none 11.3%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
83%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
90.9%
3+ A-levels A* to C
none
2+ A-levels A* to E
none
Year 12 pupils counted
88
A-level pupils counted
0

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 100 (whole school: 500)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/2493131110
2024/25100108109
2025/26100103103

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

School's note: * Includes statemented pupils. **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.

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 5210083

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