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St Joseph's College

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29 School Lane, Coalisland, BT71 4NW

Non-selective · Mixed · Catholic maintained

Pupils
502
Year 8
111
Council
Mid Ulster

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Children whose normal place of residence is within the listed contributory parishes
  2. Children who attend one of the listed primary schools (no order of preference)
  3. Children with an older brother/sister, half-brother/half-sister at this school on the date of transfer
  4. Children who are the eldest in the family
  5. Children for whom the school is the nearest maintained post-primary school
  6. Oversubscription within criteria resolved by randomised order of the initial letter of surname

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 (71 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.7 in 2024/25, 0.6 in 2025/26, 0.6 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 60%, got 74.6% (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.

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2513563111892
2025/26135638980
2026/271357114287

In 2026/27, 71 of the 71 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
33.5%
Special educational needs
170 pupils (101 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
No
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant hidden (fewer than 5 pupils), Catholic 97%, other or none not published

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
74.6%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
93.7%
3+ A-levels A* to C
none
2+ A-levels A* to E
none
Year 12 pupils counted
63
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: 135 (whole school: 680)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/2413510479
2024/2511010196
2025/2613589111

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

School's note: *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 5230192

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