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Saintfield High School

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21 Comber Road, Saintfield, BT24 7BB

Non-selective · Mixed · Controlled

Pupils
476
Year 8
109
Council
Newry, Mourne and Down

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Children with a child of the family currently enrolled at the school, or whose parent or carer is a permanent employee of the school
  2. Children who have had a child of the family who attended the school
  3. Eldest child(ren) of the family, or first child to transfer to a non-selective school, who attend a named feeder primary school
  4. Children attending a named feeder primary school who list Saintfield High School as first preference
  5. All other children
  6. Tie-break A: applicants listing Saintfield High School as first preference
  7. Tie-break B: Saintfield High School is the nearest suitable school by Ordnance Survey web distance

The school's criteria

Getting in

Hard to get into

7 of the 105 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.6 in 2024/25, 1.6 in 2025/26, 1.6 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 68%, got 59.4% (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 Ballygowan, Comber, Ballynahinch, Carryduff, Crossgar, Derryboy, Raffrey and Carrickmannon, Moneyreagh. Routes

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25689614291
2025/26681007494
2026/276810552103

In 2026/27, 98 of the 105 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
18.5%
Special educational needs
128 pupils (57 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
No
Area
Rural

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 60.3%, Catholic 3.2%, other or none 36.6%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
59.4%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
68.1%
3+ A-levels A* to C
none
2+ A-levels A* to E
none
Year 12 pupils counted
69
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: 68 (whole school: 340)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/2496127103
2024/2591110101
2025/2694113109

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

School's note: *increased temporary approved enrolment. The Total Admissions figures include all Year 8 children admitted to the school, including those who have a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 4210063

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