St Patrick's College, Dungiven: admissions and open evenings

9 Curragh Road, Dungiven, BT47 4SE

Non-selective · Mixed · Catholic maintained

against these criteria.

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

Pupils normally residing in the parishes of Dungiven and Banagher; priority to those with siblings enrolled.
Pupils not resident in those parishes who have siblings enrolled at the school.
Pupils from the parishes of Claudy, Limavady and Errigal.
Pupils from other parishes.
Tie-break within any criterion when oversubscribed: proximity of home to school, as the crow flies.

Uses a parish list: check it in the criteria.

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (74 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 0.5 in 2024/25, 0.5 in 2025/26, 0.9 in 2026/27.

Expected about 61%, got 81.8% (5+ GCSEs A* to C with English and maths, 2024/25).

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.

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
Year	Places	Put it 1st	2nd	Admitted
2024/25	90	42	2	44
2025/26	90	46	3	49
2026/27	90	74	9	83

In 2026/27, 74 of the 74 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.

Religious background of pupilsProtestant hidden (fewer than 5 pupils), Catholic 98.3%, other or none not published

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

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 90 (whole school: 450)

Applications and admissions in recent years
Year	Places	Applications (all preferences)	Admitted
2023/24	90	61	61
2024/25	90	55	55
2025/26	90	58	58

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

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

DENI reference 2230144

St Patrick's College