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St Genevieve's High School

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Stewartstown Road, Belfast, BT11 9JP

Non-selective · Girls · Catholic maintained

Pupils
1,019
Year 8
167
Council
Belfast

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Girls with a sister or half-sister currently enrolled in the school.
  2. Girls from three named primary schools historically associated with the school.
  3. Girls from a longer ordered list of named primary schools, applied in the listed order.
  4. Girls who are the sister or half-sister of past pupils of the school.
  5. Girls with a brother or half-brother currently attending De La Salle College (a sibling at another school).
  6. Girls who are the daughters of past pupils of the school.
  7. Applicants from any other primary school.
  8. Girls who are daughters of permanent employees of the school in the 2025/26 school year.
  9. Girls who are daughters of permanent employees of De La Salle College in 2025/26.
  10. Tie-break by rank order of age, oldest candidate first, then alphabetical order of surname and forename.

The school's criteria

Getting in

11 of the 147 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

For September 2026 entry, 178 applications were considered for 160 places. Places ran out at criterion 3 p): Applicants from St Kevin’s were ranked by age, oldest first. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.2 in 2024/25, 1.1 in 2025/26, 1.1 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 52%, got 50.7% (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

  • Sport: Netball, Camogie source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/251601443420160
2025/26160163134160
2026/27160147209160

In 2026/27, 136 of the 147 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
45.8%
Special educational needs
178 pupils (39 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant hidden (fewer than 5 pupils), Catholic 96%, other or none not published

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
50.7%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
67.8%
3+ A-levels A* to C
37%
2+ A-levels A* to E
95.7%
Year 12 pupils counted
146
A-level pupils counted
92

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 160 (whole school: 1,000)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24160202167
2024/25160198165
2025/26161180167

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

School's note: * includes statemented pupils

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 1230155

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