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41 Killymeal Road, Dungannon, BT71 6LJ

Non-selective · Mixed · Catholic maintained

Pupils
888
Year 8
160
Council
Mid Ulster

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Children who name the school as their first preference on the Application Form.
  2. Children with a sibling currently enrolled, or who are the eldest child, new to the country, or children of staff.
  3. Children who reside or attend a primary school in the named parishes of Caledon, Coalisland, Donaghmore, Dungannon, Eglish and Moy (Clonfeacle).
  4. Children for whom the school is the nearest maintained post-primary school.
  5. Children who have applied as first preference to another school on the Shared Campus.
  6. Tie-break a: age, selected on the basis of age (printed as youngest) from date of birth on the birth certificate.
  7. Tie-break b: initial letter of surname from a randomised letter order, then subsequent letters and forename initials.
  8. Tie-break c: random selection (computerised) where children have the same full name.

Uses a parish list: check it in the criteria.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Hard to get into

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (138 children).

For September 2026 entry, 160 applications were considered for 138 places. Places ran out at criterion 1: First preference applicants filled all 138 places including the temporary variation. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.7 in 2024/25, 1.6 in 2025/26, 1.6 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 67%, got 58.5% (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
2024/25100141717138
2025/2610015740157
2026/2710013889138

In 2026/27, 138 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
19.6%
Special educational needs
239 pupils (47 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 3.4%, Catholic 87.6%, other or none 9%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
58.5%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
95.8%
3+ A-levels A* to C
75%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
118
A-level pupils counted
76

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: 575)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24127159132
2024/25139165150
2025/26157168162

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

School's note: *includes Temporary Variation / ** includes pupils with a Statement of Educational Needs

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 5230293

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