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Sacred Heart Grammar School

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10 Ashgrove Avenue, Newry, BT34 1PR

Grammar · Girls · Voluntary · SEAG member

Pupils
873
Year 8
121
Council
Newry, Mourne and Down

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Girls placed in SEAG Entrance Assessment Band 1, plus those accepted for Special Circumstances or Special Provision.
  2. Girls placed in SEAG Entrance Assessment Band 2, plus those accepted for Special Circumstances or Special Provision.
  3. Girls placed in SEAG Entrance Assessment Band 3, plus those accepted for Special Circumstances or Special Provision.
  4. Girls placed in SEAG Entrance Assessment Band 4, plus those accepted for Special Circumstances or Special Provision.
  5. Girls placed in SEAG Entrance Assessment Band 5, plus those accepted for Special Circumstances or Special Provision.
  6. Girls placed in SEAG Entrance Assessment Band 6, plus those accepted for Special Circumstances or Special Provision.
  7. All other girls who applied to the school.
  8. Girls with another girl of the family enrolled at the school, or selected for the coming year (sub-criterion i).
  9. Girls with a parent or guardian on the permanent teaching, administrative or ancillary staff (sub-criterion ii).
  10. Eldest girl of the family, with proof letter required (sub-criterion iii).
  11. Tie-breaker within sub-criteria (i) to (iii): computer-based random ranking on applicants' full names.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (106 children).

Places depend mostly on the SEAG score, so how many apply says little on its own.

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.1 in 2024/25, 1.2 in 2025/26, 0.9 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 98%, got 100% (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
2024/2512012420120
2025/2612013740120
2026/2712010652113

In 2026/27, 106 of the 106 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
6.9%
Special educational needs
28 pupils (hidden (fewer than 5 pupils) with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant hidden (fewer than 5 pupils), Catholic 96.8%, other or none not published

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
100%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
100%
3+ A-levels A* to C
84.6%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
118
A-level pupils counted
117

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 120 (whole school: 875)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24120131120
2024/25120126121
2025/26120143121

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

School's note: *Includes appeals, SEN Provision or temporary variation as directed by DE.

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 5420076

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