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Priory Integrated College

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My Lady's Mile, Holywood, BT18 9ER

Non-selective · Integrated

Pupils
712
Year 8
141
Council
Ards and North Down

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Child of the family enrolled at the college now or within the last 5 years.
  2. Eldest or only child of the family eligible to apply, or first to reach transfer age after recently arriving in Northern Ireland.
  3. Applicant nominates the college as first or second preference on the Transfer Application.
  4. Applicant transferring from an integrated primary school.
  5. Applicant transferring from one of the six named primary schools listed.
  6. Applicant from a mixed relationship (one Catholic and one Protestant parent/partner/carer, or one of another religion outside the main traditions).
  7. Applicant from one of the 39 primary schools with a tradition of transferring pupils to the college.
  8. Tie-breaker: surname initial letter order from a randomised list set in the document, then further letters and initials.

The school's criteria

Getting in

4 of the 84 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

For September 2026 entry, 129 applications were considered for 120 places. Places ran out at criterion tie-breaker: Protestant-tradition applicants were ranked by admission-criteria points, using surname-letter random selection for ties. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.3 in 2024/25, 1.3 in 2025/26, 1.3 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 59%, got 59.8% (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 Bangor, Crawfordsburn, Kilcooley, Belfast, Dundonald, Newtownards, Holywood. Routes

School life

  • School day 8.50am to 3pm source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25100961715120
2025/26100732824120
2026/27100843015120

In 2026/27, 80 of the 84 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
34.8%
Special educational needs
292 pupils (117 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 52%, Catholic 15.7%, other or none 32.3%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
59.8%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
88.7%
3+ A-levels A* to C
68.2%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
97
A-level pupils counted
44

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: 600)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24100173100
2024/25100148120
2025/26100154140

Applications count every family that named the school at any preference, not only first preferences.

School's note: * In 2024/25 the Department of Education approved a temporary variation of the college's admission number from 100 to 120. **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.

Open event: Open evening on 15 January 2026

Sources

DENI reference 4250024

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