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St Ronan's College

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71 North Circular Road, Lurgan, BT67 9JN

Grammar · Mixed · Voluntary · Not a SEAG member

Pupils
1,788
Year 8
287
Council
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

Open events

Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. Category A: a pupil with an older brother or sister at St Ronan’s on the date of transfer.
  2. Category A: a pupil living in one of 7 named contributory parishes.
  3. Category A: a pupil from one of 15 named primary schools in those parishes (one entry is St Francis’ PS with its Irish-medium unit, Bunscoil Naomh Proinsias).
  4. Category A: a pupil whose parent or guardian is a permanent employee of the College.
  5. Category B: all other applicants. Category A is filled first; the sub-criteria below are applied within each category in turn.
  6. Within each category: St Ronan’s named first, and a brother or sister at the College now.
  7. Within each category: St Ronan’s named first, and a brother or sister who attended before.
  8. Within each category: St Ronan’s named first, and the first eligible child in the family to transfer.
  9. Within each category: St Ronan’s named first, meeting none of the above.
  10. Tie-break: surname initial in a randomly drawn letter order printed in the document.

Uses a parish list: check it in the criteria.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

5 of the 282 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

For September 2026 entry, 289 applications were considered for 280 places. Places ran out at criterion B3: Category B3 was oversubscribed; Category B5 then selected by surname letters, ending at M. EA statement

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

Results for its intake

Expected about 85%, got 66.5% (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.

Getting there

The school runs its own buses. See routes

School life

  • Sport: Gaelic football, Football, Tennis source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/25280257136276
2025/2628026742273
2026/2728028260281

In 2026/27, 277 of the 282 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
19.7%
Special educational needs
388 pupils (86 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 1%, Catholic 94.6%, other or none 4.4%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
66.5%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
92.7%
3+ A-levels A* to C
65.6%
2+ A-levels A* to E
98.7%
Year 12 pupils counted
245
A-level pupils counted
151

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 280 (whole school: 1,735)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24280286284
2024/25280283290
2025/26280280286

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

School's note: Total admissions include pupils with a statement of special educational needs; for 2025/26 they include all Year 8 children admitted, including those attending SPiMS.

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria. No SEAG or other test score appears in its Year 8 criteria.

Open event: Open night Thursday 4 December 2025.

Sources

DENI reference 5420314

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