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Oakgrove Integrated College

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20 Gransha Park, Londonderry, BT47 6TG

Non-selective · Mixed · Integrated

Pupils
560
Year 8
73
Council
Derry City and Strabane

Open events

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Pupils with a child of the family presently or previously enrolled; priority to families whose elder children all attended.
  2. Pupils naming Oakgrove as a post-primary preference on the Transfer Form.
  3. Pupils transferring from a grant-maintained or controlled integrated primary school.
  4. Other applicants.
  5. Maximum 20% of places reserved for other traditions; remaining places divided equally between Protestant and Roman Catholic applicants.
  6. Final tie-break by the initial letter of the surname in a fixed order.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (57 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.5 in 2024/25, 0.4 in 2025/26, 0.5 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 56%, got 36% (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.

Getting there

School bus from Rock Road, Knockwellan, Ulsterbus, Hazelbank, Reddins, Maydown, Fernabbey, Glen Road, Rossdowney, Caw, Strathfoyle, Eglinton, Madams Bank, Crescent Link, Drumahoe and Culmore, Limavady, Ballyarton, Ayton, Newbuildings, The Branch. Routes

School life

  • School day 8.50am to 3.10pm source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/251305710471
2025/261303820058
2026/271305710370

In 2026/27, 57 of the 57 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
40.4%
Special educational needs
107 pupils (54 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Rural

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 13.2%, Catholic 61.3%, other or none 25.5%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
36%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
57%
3+ A-levels A* to C
20%
2+ A-levels A* to E
93.3%
Year 12 pupils counted
100
A-level pupils counted
30

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 130 (whole school: 800)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/241309285
2024/251309385
2025/26*1306973

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 2260276

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