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Nendrum College

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Darragh Road, Comber, BT23 5BX

Non-selective · Mixed · Controlled

Pupils
470
Year 8
97
Council
Ards and North Down

Open events

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Children with an older sibling enrolled at the College, or who previously attended within the last 7 years.
  2. Only or eldest children of the family, or the first child to transfer to a non-Grammar school, who attend a listed contributory primary school.
  3. Children attending a listed feeder primary school who list Nendrum College as first preference post primary school.
  4. All other children who have applied to the College.
  5. Tie-break A: children who list Nendrum College as their first preference post primary school.
  6. Tie-break B: residence closest to Nendrum College Comber, by Ordnance Survey web distance measurement tool.
  7. Tie-break C: where two children live the same distance away, the oldest child is admitted.

The school's criteria

Getting in

2 of the 100 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

For September 2026 entry, 147 applications were considered for 101 places. Places ran out at criterion 2: Eldest or first child transferring to a mainstream non-Grammar school and attending a contributory primary; sub-criterion A selected first-preference applicants. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.4 in 2024/25, 1.4 in 2025/26, 1.7 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 58%, got 61.7% (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
2024/25808916880
2025/268081171280
2026/2780100278101

In 2026/27, 98 of the 100 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
35.7%
Special educational needs
146 pupils (52 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
No
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 57.4%, Catholic 3%, other or none 39.6%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
61.7%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
91.5%
3+ A-levels A* to C
none
2+ A-levels A* to E
none
Year 12 pupils counted
94
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: 80 (whole school: 420)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24100139112
2024/258011992
2025/268011297

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

School's note: *Includes temporary variation/on appeal | **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)

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 4210045

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