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St Joseph's Grammar School

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58 Castlecaulfield Road, Dungannon, BT70 3HE

Grammar · Mixed · Voluntary · SEAG member

Pupils
968
Year 8
129
Council
Mid Ulster

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Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Places go to pupils in SEAG Bands 1 to 6 in strict order, plus accepted Special Circumstances or Special Provisions cases judged comparable.
  2. Applicants who list St Joseph’s Grammar School as their first preference post-primary school.
  3. Applicants who have a sibling or half sibling enrolled at the school at the time of application.
  4. Pupils who are the eldest child of the family eligible to apply for a mainstream school (alternative to criterion 3, joined by Or).
  5. Remaining applicants ranked in descending age order, eldest first, from the birth certificate.

The school's criteria

Getting in

11 of the 138 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

Places depend mostly on the SEAG score, so how many apply says little on its own.

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.5 in 2024/25, 1.3 in 2025/26, 1.3 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 91%, got 93.5% (5+ GCSEs A* to C with English and maths, 2024/25).

0%50%100%0%20%40%Pupils on free school meals
Each dot is a grammar 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: Gaelic football, Hurling, Camogie, Netball, Athletics, Swimming, Equestrian source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25120153245123
2025/2612015370120
2026/27120138144137

In 2026/27, 127 of the 138 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
13.3%
Special educational needs
129 pupils (35 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Rural

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 0%, Catholic 98.6%, other or none 1.4%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
93.5%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
100%
3+ A-levels A* to C
83%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
168
A-level pupils counted
88

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 120 (whole school: 750)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/2470177138
2024/2570157138
2025/2670100129

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

School's note: *includes IMS places, Appeals and Temporary Variations

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 5420073

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