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St Fanchea's College

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21 Coa Road, Enniskillen, BT74 4AD

Non-selective · Girls · Catholic maintained

Pupils
337
Year 8
68
Council
Fermanagh and Omagh

Open events

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Applicants who normally reside in the listed parishes, or pupils for whom the college is the nearest maintained post-primary school.
  2. Applicants from the listed traditional feeder primary schools.
  3. Applicants who have a sister currently enrolled in the college.
  4. Pupils from other parishes who give the college as a preference.
  5. Tie-break Method A: random selection by initial letter(s) of surname, using the fixed letter order printed in the document.
  6. Tie-break Method B: oldest applicant first, by date of birth.
  7. Tie-break Method C: computerised random selection.

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 (38 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 1 in 2024/25, 1.1 in 2025/26, 0.8 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 61%, got 56.8% (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

  • Sport: Netball, Gaelic football, Athletics, Dance, Rugby, Basketball, Football source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2560478358
2025/26605113064
2026/27603812050

In 2026/27, 38 of the 38 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
31.5%
Special educational needs
99 pupils (46 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant hidden (fewer than 5 pupils), Catholic 93.2%, other or none not published

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
56.8%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
72.7%
3+ A-levels A* to C
hidden (fewer than 5 pupils)
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
44
A-level pupils counted
6

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for 2026.

Year 8 places: 60 (whole school: 350)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24605555
2024/25605764
2025/26656467

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

School's note: * Includes pupils in Specialist Provision in Mainstream Education. (The ** marker on the 2025/2026 admissions number of 65 has no matching footnote text in the extracted prospectus text.)

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria. No SEAG or entrance assessment mentioned in the admissions section; criteria are residence, feeder primary, sibling and preference based.

Sources

DENI reference 2230099

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