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St Patrick's & St Brigid's College

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55 Main Street, Claudy, BT47 4HR

Non-selective · Mixed · Catholic maintained

Pupils
465
Year 8
81
Council
Derry City and Strabane

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Applicants from 19 named contributory parishes (in no particular order).
  2. Sibling currently attending the school, or first child in family to transfer to post-primary.
  3. Applicants who select the college as first preference.
  4. Applicants who select the college as a first non-selective preference.
  5. Tie-break for last place: rank by date of birth, eldest first.
  6. Tie-break for last place with same birth date: surname initial in the order set out in the document.

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 (65 children).

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

Results for its intake

Expected about 58%, got 56% (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.

Getting there

The school runs its own buses. See routes

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/251004910261
2025/26100666072
2026/27100653169

In 2026/27, 65 of the 65 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
36.6%
Special educational needs
120 pupils (61 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
No
Area
Rural

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 0%, Catholic 96.8%, other or none 3.2%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
56%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
86.8%
3+ A-levels A* to C
none
2+ A-levels A* to E
none
Year 12 pupils counted
91
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: 100 (whole school: 500)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/241008886
2024/251006360
2025/261008376

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.

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 2230122

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