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Tandragee Junior High

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12 Armagh Road, Tandragee, BT62 2AY

Non-selective · Mixed · Controlled

Pupils
326
Year 8
94
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. Children from any of the seven named contributory primary schools.
  2. Children with a child of the family currently enrolled at the school.
  3. Children who are the eldest child of the family eligible to apply, or from a family without an earlier eligible eldest child (proof required).
  4. Children for whom Tandragee Junior High School is the nearest controlled secondary school.
  5. Other children.
  6. Sub-criterion (i): children with a child of the family currently enrolled at the school.
  7. Sub-criterion (ii): eldest child of the family, or a family without an earlier eligible eldest child (proof required).
  8. Sub-criterion (iii): remaining places by proximity of home address to the school's eastern gate, measured in a straight line.
  9. Sub-criterion (iv): tie-break by initial letter of the surname, in a randomised order.

The school's criteria

Getting in

Usually has spare places

Everyone who put it first was offered a place in 2026/27 (59 children).

Applications per place (all preferences): 1.1 in 2024/25, 0.8 in 2025/26, 0.6 in 2026/27.

School life

Who applied

Applications by the preference families gave the school, and children admitted
YearPlacesPut it 1st2nd3rd or laterAdmitted
2024/2510510462105
2025/26105824086
2026/27105595064

In 2026/27, 59 of the 59 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
19.3%
Special educational needs
54 pupils (32 with a statement)
Has Years 13 and 14
No
Area
Rural

Religious background of pupilsProtestant 75.2%, Catholic hidden (fewer than 5 pupils), other or none not published

Exam results (2024/25)

Not in the 2024/25 results. This school has no Year 12 pupils.

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

Admissions

From the school's admissions criteria for September 2026.

Year 8 places: 105 (whole school: 320)

Applications and admissions in recent years
YearPlacesApplications (all preferences)Admitted
2023/24105113111
2024/25105113105
2025/261058694

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. (SPiMS = Specialist Provision in Mainstream School)

Does not use transfer test results in its admissions criteria.

Sources

DENI reference 5210143

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