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Sacred Heart College

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Kevlin Road, Omagh, BT78 1LG

Non-selective · Mixed · Catholic maintained

Pupils
644
Year 8
116
Council
Fermanagh and Omagh

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Applicants entitled to Free School Meals, with a priority proportion matching first-preference FSM applications.
  2. Applicants who have a sibling currently attending the college.
  3. Applicants who are the eldest child in the family.
  4. Applicants residing in one of sixteen named parishes (listed not in order of preference).
  5. Applicants attending one of 32 named primary schools (listed not in order of preference).
  6. Applicants for whom the college is the nearest suitable school.

Uses a parish list: check it in the criteria.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (109 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.5 in 2024/25, 0.6 in 2025/26, 0.8 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 60%, got 69.7% (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
2024/25170851086
2025/261709650101
2026/27170109221132

In 2026/27, 109 of the 109 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
32.6%
Special educational needs
207 pupils (62 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant hidden (fewer than 5 pupils), Catholic 96.3%, other or none not published

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
69.7%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
99%
3+ A-levels A* to C
53.7%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
99
A-level pupils counted
41

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 170 (whole school: 950)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24170127127
2024/25170107107
2025/26170105116

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 2230298

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