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St Louis' Grammar

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Cullybackey Road, Ballymena, BT43 5DW

Grammar · Mixed · Voluntary · SEAG member

Pupils
1,200
Year 8
157
Council
Mid and East Antrim

Open events

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Places allocated in strict rank order of SEAG Total Standardised Age Score until the admissions number of 139 is filled.
  2. Equal scores: applicants who have a child of the family currently enrolled at the School (AC1 Sibling).
  3. Equal scores: applicants who are the eldest child of the family eligible to apply, with twins treated as joint eldest (AC2 Eldest Child).
  4. Equal scores: by age, with the oldest applicant selected first (AC3 Basis of Age).
  5. Final tie-break by random selection of surname initial letters in a fixed order (AC4).

The school's criteria

Getting in

63 of the 207 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): 1.6 in 2024/25, 1.6 in 2025/26, 1.6 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 99%, got 99.4% (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.

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2513920865173
2025/2613920983146
2026/27139207126146

In 2026/27, 144 of the 207 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
5.3%
Special educational needs
89 pupils (32 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant hidden (fewer than 5 pupils), Catholic 95.8%, other or none not published

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
99.4%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
99.4%
3+ A-levels A* to C
98.1%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
165
A-level pupils counted
154

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 139 (whole school: 960)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24139218160
2024/25139219182
2025/26139220157

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

School's note: *This table includes pupils who were admitted to the School with a statement of special educational needs/on Appeal/via Exceptional Circumstances Body/via Temporary Variation (2023/24 and 2024/25 admissions marked *). **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)

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria. Ranks by SEAG Assessment Total Standardised Age Score (assessments on 15 and 22 November 2025); AC1 to AC4 apply only to equal scores.

Open event: Open Nights Wednesday 21st January and Thursday 22nd January 2026 from 7.00pm.

Sources

DENI reference 3420010

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