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St Colm's High School

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2 Magherafelt Road, Draperstown, BT45 7AF

Non-selective · Mixed · Catholic maintained

Pupils
383
Year 8
33
Council
Mid Ulster

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Applicants with brothers, sisters, half-siblings or foster siblings presently or previously enrolled in the school
  2. First or only child in the family residing in Ballinascreen and Desertmartin parishes
  3. Applicants normally residing in Ballinascreen and Desertmartin parishes
  4. First or only child in the family residing in Plumbridge and Greencastle parishes
  5. Applicants normally residing in Plumbridge and Greencastle parishes
  6. Other applicants
  7. Oversubscription within any criterion resolved by rank order of surname initial, then subsequent letters per printed list

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 (28 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.8 in 2024/25, 0.4 in 2025/26, 0.5 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 71%, got 81.6% (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

The school runs its own buses. See routes

School life

  • School day 9am to 3.10pm source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2568512154
2025/2668232126
2026/2768287035

In 2026/27, 28 of the 28 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
14.1%
Special educational needs
95 pupils (38 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Rural

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 1.6%, Catholic 97.1%, other or none 1.3%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
81.6%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
89.5%
3+ A-levels A* to C
67.7%
2+ A-levels A* to E
87.1%
Year 12 pupils counted
76
A-level pupils counted
31

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
2023/24686767
2024/25685454
2025/26683533

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

School's note: This table does not include children who were admitted to the school with a statement of special educational needs. *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 3230132

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