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Rainey Endowed Grammar

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79 Rainey Street, Magherafelt, BT45 5DB

Grammar · Mixed · Voluntary · SEAG member

Pupils
776
Year 8
103
Council
Mid Ulster

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Unnumbered first step in Section 3: places given in rank order of SEAG Total Standardised Age Score until admission number (100) is filled.
  2. Tie-break 3.1: sibling or other child of the family currently enrolled at the School.
  3. Tie-break 3.2: child of the family previously enrolled at the School for 2 or more years.
  4. Tie-break 3.3: eldest or only child of the family.
  5. Tie-break 3.4: enrolled in one of the contributing primary schools listed in Section 5.
  6. Tie-break 3.5: if still tied, computerised random selection.

The school's criteria

Getting in

16 of the 119 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, 130 applications were considered for 100 places. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.3 in 2024/25, 0.9 in 2025/26, 1.2 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 97%, got 98.1% (5+ GCSEs A* to C with English and maths, 2024/25).

0%50%100%0%20%40%Pupils on free school meals
Each dot is a grammar 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
2024/2510012240102
2025/26100814287
2026/2710011940104

In 2026/27, 103 of the 119 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
7.3%
Special educational needs
56 pupils (29 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 55.4%, Catholic 30.5%, other or none 14%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
98.1%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
99%
3+ A-levels A* to C
89.8%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
103
A-level pupils counted
108

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: 700)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24100146106
2024/25100142114
2025/26100100103

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

School's note: * Child/children of the family see DE Circular - Procedure for Transfer from Primary to Post Primary 2025/12

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria. Ranks by the SEAG Combined Standardised Age Score (English and Mathematics) with Special Circumstances and Special Provision adjustments.

Open event: Open afternoon and evening Thursday 22 January 2026; tours from 2.45pm.

Sources

DENI reference 3420058

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