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New-Bridge Integrated College

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25 Donard View Road, Loughbrickland, BT32 3LN

Non-selective · Mixed · Integrated

Pupils
698
Year 8
113
Council
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

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Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Applicants with a brother or sister enrolled or formerly enrolled in the college.
  2. Applicants who are the eldest child or eldest eligible child; staff and governor parents are regarded as equal within this criterion.
  3. Applicants who are the eldest child in the family, or the brother or sister of an eldest child refused admission in a previous year due to oversubscription.
  4. Applicants who are not the eldest child.
  5. Oversubscription tie-break: first preference applications from an integrated primary school take precedence.
  6. Oversubscription tie-break: first preference applicants whose parent is a former pupil of the college.
  7. Final tie-breaker: drawing lots among applicants under the criterion.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (140 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.2 in 2024/25, 1.1 in 2025/26, 1.5 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 69%, got 74.7% (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
2024/2510011252119
2025/261009691106
2026/2710014051140

In 2026/27, 140 of the 140 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
17%
Special educational needs
98 pupils (40 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Rural

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 39.5%, Catholic 34.4%, other or none 26.1%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
74.7%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
92.6%
3+ A-levels A* to C
53.6%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
95
A-level pupils counted
56

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: 620)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24100100100
2024/25100126126
2025/26100112112

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)

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 5260285

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