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St Brigid's College, Carnhill

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1 Glengalliagh Road, Londonderry, BT48 8DU

Non-selective · Mixed · Catholic maintained

Pupils
911
Year 8
183
Council
Derry City and Strabane

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Preference to children who nominate the college as first preference all-ability school.
  2. Pupils with a parent who is a permanent member of staff at the college.
  3. Pupils applying for a place in the Irish Medium Unit.
  4. Pupils with a child of the family currently enrolled at the college.
  5. Pupils who are the eldest or only child of the family.
  6. Pupils with a child of the family previously enrolled at the college for at least 2 years.
  7. Pupils with a parent who was enrolled at the college for at least 5 years (full names and dates required).
  8. Pupils resident in one of 11 named parishes (not in priority order).
  9. Applicants from all other schools.
  10. Tie-break: rank by age on birth certificate, older pupils first, within the criterion applied.
  11. Tie-break: surname initial in the randomised letter order set out in the document.
  12. Tie-break: identical surname and forename, ranked by eldest child by date of birth.

Uses a parish list: check it in the criteria.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Hard to get into

52 of the 176 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

For September 2026 entry, 194 applications were considered for 125 places. Places ran out at criterion 5: Applicants in the eldest-or-only-child group were ranked by age, oldest first. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.5 in 2024/25, 1.6 in 2025/26, 1.5 in 2026/27.

Results for its intakePunches above its weight

Expected about 46%, got 66.7% (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.

School life

  • Has a learning support centre source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2512518017125
2025/2612519732125
2026/2712517677125

In 2026/27, 124 of the 176 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
57.6%
Special educational needs
522 pupils (216 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 0.7%, Catholic 98.1%, other or none 1.2%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
66.7%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
94.9%
3+ A-levels A* to C
69%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
117
A-level pupils counted
29

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 125 (whole school: 720)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24125260169
2024/25125217157
2025/26125252183

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.

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 2230225

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