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St Mary's College

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35 Northland Road, Londonderry, BT48 0AN

Non-selective · Girls · Catholic maintained

Pupils
873
Year 8
134
Council
Derry City and Strabane

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Applicants with a sister already or formerly enrolled at the school who chose St Mary’s as first preference.
  2. Applicants resident in listed parishes who chose St Mary’s as first preference.
  3. Applicants resident in listed parishes who chose St Mary’s as first preference non-selective school, after a selective school.
  4. Applicants resident in listed parishes who placed at least one non-selective school ahead of St Mary’s.
  5. Applicants resident in other parishes in Northern Ireland.
  6. Late applications (received after noon GMT on 19 February 2026).
  7. Random selection by initial letter of surname (long birth certificate), in the order set out, for over-subscription in any criterion.
  8. Identical surnames: alphabetical by subsequent letters, then forename initials, second forename, then eldest child by date of birth.

Uses a parish list: check it in the criteria.

The school's criteria

Getting in

1 of the 126 children who put it first was not offered a place in 2026/27.

For September 2026 entry, 161 applications were considered for 130 places. Places ran out at criterion 4: Pupils in the named parishes with a non-selective school ahead of St Mary’s; random-alphabet selection filled the remaining places, ending at W. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.1 in 2024/25, 1 in 2025/26, 1.2 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 55%, got 62.2% (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
2024/25130112288130
2025/26130111124127
2026/27130126265130

In 2026/27, 125 of the 126 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
41.2%
Special educational needs
169 pupils (42 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
62.2%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
95.5%
3+ A-levels A* to C
52.9%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
111
A-level pupils counted
68

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 130 (whole school: 825)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24130166137
2024/25130147137
2025/26130133135

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

School's note: *Includes Statemented and Temporary Variation pupils | **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.

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 2230081

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