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Mount Lourdes Grammar School

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6 Belmore Street, Enniskillen, BT74 6AB

Grammar · Girls · Voluntary · SEAG member

Pupils
750
Year 8
100
Council
Fermanagh and Omagh

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Girls with SEAG Band 1, or accepted Special Circumstances/Provision judged comparable to Band 1, admitted first.
  2. Girls with SEAG Band 2, or accepted Special Circumstances/Provision judged comparable to Band 2, admitted next.
  3. Girls with SEAG Band 3, or accepted Special Circumstances/Provision judged comparable to Band 3.
  4. Girls with SEAG Band 4, or accepted Special Circumstances/Provision judged comparable to Band 4.
  5. Girls with SEAG Band 5, or accepted Special Circumstances/Provision judged comparable to Band 5.
  6. Girls with SEAG Band 6, or accepted Special Circumstances/Provision judged comparable to Band 6.
  7. Where bands are oversubscribed: applicants with another girl of the family enrolled, or selected for the coming year.
  8. Applicants who are the first girl in the family to transfer to secondary education, including only children and joint eldest twins.
  9. Final places by random selection on the initial letter of the surname (witnessed fixed order); further ties by computer.

The school's criteria

Getting in

19 of the 115 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): 1.1 in 2024/25, 1.3 in 2025/26, 1.2 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 97%, got 99% (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

  • Sport: Badminton, Gaelic football, Netball, Rugby, Swimming, Athletics source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25961090096
2025/26961191096
2026/27961150096

In 2026/27, 96 of the 115 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
7.3%
Special educational needs
71 pupils (18 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant hidden (fewer than 5 pupils), Catholic 96.4%, other or none not published

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
99%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
99%
3+ A-levels A* to C
81.2%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
96
A-level pupils counted
117

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 96 (whole school: 760)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/249610596
2024/259610999
2025/2696120100

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 and/or may be attending SPiMS. (SPiMS = Specialist Provision in Mainstream School)

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria. Girls are ranked by SEAG band (Band 1 highest) and Special Circumstances/Provision claims; SEAG band is the entrance assessment result.

Open event: Open Night Thursday 22nd January 2026 at 7.00 pm.

Sources

DENI reference 2420041

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