Our Lady & St Patrick's College

Your chances

Check your chances against these criteria.

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

1. 1Pupils resident in Northern Ireland at proposed admission are selected before any child not so resident.
2. 2Band A: applicants awarded SEAG Band 1, plus special circumstances or provision applicants of comparable ability.
3. 3Band B: applicants awarded SEAG Band 2, plus special circumstances or provision applicants of comparable ability.
4. 4Band C: applicants awarded SEAG Band 3, plus special circumstances or provision applicants of comparable ability.
5. 5Band D: applicants awarded SEAG Band 4, plus special circumstances or provision applicants of comparable ability.
6. 6Band E: applicants awarded SEAG Band 5, plus special circumstances or provision applicants of comparable ability.
7. 7Band F: applicants awarded SEAG Band 6, plus special circumstances or provision applicants of comparable ability.
8. 8Band G: other applicants not in Bands 1 to 6.
9. 9H1 (within a band): applicants with a child of the family currently or previously enrolled, or accepted for 2026/27.
10. 10H2(i) (within a band): applicants who are the eldest or only child of the family.
11. 11H2(ii) (within a band): applicants whose eldest sibling previously achieved a top grade or Band 1 and applied but was not selected.
12. 12H2(iii) (within a band): applicants where every older sibling did not achieve a top grade or band in the college's entrance assessment.
13. 13H3 (within a band): applicants entitled to free school meals on the Education Authority register.
14. 14H4 (within a band): applicants for whom the college is the nearest Catholic grammar school by distance from home.
15. 15H5 (within a band): applicants with the highest SEAG TSAS, or TSAS allocated via special circumstances or provision, ranked first.
16. 16H6: ties for the final place are resolved by initial letter of surname, in the printed order.
17. 17H7: same initial letter is resolved by later surname letters; then forenames, eldest by date of birth, then random selection.

The school's criteria

Getting in

15 of the 189 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.

For September 2026 entry: the lowest band admitted was Band 2. source

For September 2026 entry, 220 applications were considered for 190 places. Places ran out at criterion B/H1/H5: The last place went to a Band 2 sibling applicant with the highest Total Standardised Age Score, 203. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.5 in 2024/25, 1.4 in 2025/26, 1.2 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 100%, got 100% (5+ GCSEs A* to C with English and maths, 2024/25).

Getting there

The school runs its own buses. See routes