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Newry High School

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23 Ashgrove Road, Newry, BT34 1QN

Non-selective · Mixed · Controlled

Pupils
434
Year 8
61
Council
Newry, Mourne and Down

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Applicants from the listed feeder primary schools.
  2. Applicants who have a sibling currently attending the school.
  3. Applicants who are the eldest eligible child of the family (with the listed exceptions).
  4. Applicants for whom the school is the nearest school.
  5. Applicants from other controlled primary schools.
  6. Applicants attending other primary schools.
  7. Tie-break: pupils who have a brother or sister attending the school.
  8. Tie-break: surname placement in a randomly selected letter order.
  9. Tie-break: computerised or random selection if still tied.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (44 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.5 in 2024/25, 0.5 in 2025/26, 0.5 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 57%, got 41.3% (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
2024/2592463049
2025/2692356243
2026/2792441146

In 2026/27, 44 of the 44 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
38.7%
Special educational needs
111 pupils (61 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 31.3%, Catholic 37.3%, other or none 31.3%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
41.3%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
63.8%
3+ A-levels A* to C
59.1%
2+ A-levels A* to E
95.5%
Year 12 pupils counted
80
A-level pupils counted
22

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 92 (whole school: 580)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24926060
2024/25926262
2025/26926161

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 5210186

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