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Strathearn School

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188 Belmont Road, Belfast, BT4 2AU

Grammar · Girls · Voluntary · SEAG member

Pupils
825
Year 8
123
Council
Belfast

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Your chances

against these criteria.

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

  1. First 110 of the 120 places allocated by rank order of SEAG Score, higher Scores first.
  2. Remaining places allocated from a Pool of at least 20 girls ranked by SEAG Score.
  3. Girls who did not sit the SEAG assessment considered for any places still unfilled.
  4. Girls enrolled in the Preparatory Department as of 1 September 2024.
  5. Girls with a child of the family currently in the Secondary Department or accepted for September 2026.
  6. Girls who are the eldest child of the family in September 2026.
  7. Girls with the highest SEAG Scores.
  8. Girls entitled to Free School Meals (see footnote on FSM date).
  9. Girls with a child of the family who has attended the Secondary Department.
  10. Girls with a child of the family enrolled in Years 8 to 14 or accepted for September 2026 at Campbell College.
  11. Where more than one girl is eligible for the final place, the girl whose home is closer to the school.

The school's criteria

Getting in

3 of the 117 children who put it first were not offered a place in 2026/27.

Places depend mostly on the SEAG score, so how many apply says little on its own.

For September 2026 entry: the lowest score admitted was 192. source

For September 2026 entry, 131 applications were considered for 120 places. Places ran out at criterion 4 (iv): Pool places were allocated to girls with the highest Scores. EA statement

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.3 in 2024/25, 1.4 in 2025/26, 1.1 in 2026/27.

Results for its intake

Expected about 98%, got 97.5% (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.

School life

  • Sport: Netball, Hockey, Football, Badminton, Dance source

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2512013785120
2025/261201381610120
2026/27120117130120

In 2026/27, 114 of the 117 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
6.7%
Special educational needs
21 pupils (10 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
Yes
Area
Urban

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 50.5%, Catholic 9.9%, other or none 39.5%

Exam results (2024/25)

5+ GCSEs A* to C, with English and maths
97.5%
5+ GCSEs A* to C
98.3%
3+ A-levels A* to C
90.1%
2+ A-levels A* to E
100%
Year 12 pupils counted
118
A-level pupils counted
91

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 120 (whole school: 810)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24120171121
2024/25120167121
2025/26120167123

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

School's note: *Includes statemented pupils, those admitted under appeal or at the direction of the ‘Exceptional Circumstances Body’

Uses transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 1420089

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