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Our Lady of Lourdes High School

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Castle Street, Ballymoney, BT53 6JX

Non-selective · Mixed · Catholic maintained

Pupils
413
Year 8
83
Council
Causeway Coast and Glens

Open events

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Entitled to Free School Meals, admitted in proportion to first preference FSME applications
  2. Children resident in Northern Ireland selected before children not so resident
  3. Children who have a sibling currently enrolled in the school
  4. Children attending one of the listed contributory primary schools
  5. Eldest child eligible for admission, including where older siblings have left post-primary or the eldest attends a special school
  6. Remaining places allocated by randomised order of the initial letter of surname

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (47 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.7 in 2024/25, 0.6 in 2025/26, 0.8 in 2026/27.

Results for its intakePunches above its weight

Expected about 52%, got 72.9% (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
2024/2580464252
2025/2680329546
2026/27804712766

In 2026/27, 47 of the 47 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
46%
Special educational needs
238 pupils (157 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
No
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 24.7%, Catholic 43.8%, other or none 31.5%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
72.9%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
93.8%
3+ A-levels A* to C
none
2+ A-levels A* to E
none
Year 12 pupils counted
48
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: 400)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24805247
2024/25805957
2025/26806083

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 3230075

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