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5 Craigstown Road, Randalstown, BT41 2AF

Non-selective · Mixed · Catholic maintained

Pupils
372
Year 8
67
Council
Antrim and Newtownabbey

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Applicants entitled to Free School Meals, admitted in proportion to first-preference FSME applications.
  2. Applicants living in the parishes of Antrim, Duneane and Randalstown.
  3. Applicants with a sibling currently attending the school.
  4. Applicants attending one of the listed primary schools (Creggan, Millquarter, Moneynick, Mount St. Michael’s, St. Comgall’s, St. Joseph’s, St. Oliver Plunkett).
  5. Tie-breaker: sibling or child of the family.

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 (55 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.4 in 2024/25, 0.5 in 2025/26, 0.7 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 59%, got 60.4% (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.

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25100286337
2025/26100366749
2026/271005510570

In 2026/27, 55 of the 55 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
33.9%
Special educational needs
87 pupils (31 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
No
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 2.2%, Catholic 67.7%, other or none 30.1%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
60.4%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
97.8%
3+ A-levels A* to C
none
2+ A-levels A* to E
none
Year 12 pupils counted
91
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: 100 (whole school: 500)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24*1006577
2024/25*1003744
2025/26*1006367

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

School's note: *Total Admissions 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 3230308

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