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Bangor Grammar School: Year 8 entry

84 Gransha Road, Bangor, BT19 7QU

Facts checked 19 October 2026By ExamKind Editorial TeamSchool website

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Can we apply, and what did it take?

For September 2027 entry

  • Score to qualify

    Not published yet

    SEAG Entrance Assessment (the NI transfer test)

  • Year 8 places

    Not published yet

  • Last distance offered

    Not publishedWe have no checked figure for how far offers reached.

Your next deadlines

  1. Next: Re-mark requests close

    in about 15 weeks

    Only if you want the test papers marked again

  2. Coming up: Appeal deadline

    in about 30 weeks

How far offers reached

Can we get in?

How places are given

Northern Ireland grammar schools give Year 8 places using their own admissions criteria, often in order of transfer test result. Bangor Grammar School's criteria are under Admission rules on this page.

Qualifying is not the same as being offered a place.

Reaching the school's standard means your child can be considered. If more children qualify than there are places, the school gives places using its admission rules, in order. The figures below show how far those rules reached in past years. They are history, not a prediction: they change every year with who applies.

Checked, source: Department for Education (GOV.UK), checked

Most Northern Ireland schools do not publish how far places reached. Read the school's admissions criteria to see how it ranks applicants, and what transfer test results mean.

At a glance

Bangor Grammar School in brief

Entrance test
SEAG Entrance Assessment (the NI transfer test)
The test children sit to be considered.

Key dates

Dates for September 2027 entry

For children in P7 in 2026/27.

Add to my calendar

SEAG (Schools' Entrance Assessment Group)

3 earlier steps, all doneShow

  1. Done: Test registration opens

  2. Done: Test registration closes

  3. Done: Admission cards sent for the test

  1. Next: Test day

  2. Coming up: Transfer test, paper 1

  3. Coming up: Transfer test, paper 2

  4. Coming up: Results

  5. Coming up: Re-mark requests open

  6. Coming up: Re-mark requests close

    in about 15 weeks

    Only if you want the test papers marked again

  7. Coming up: Appeal deadline

    in about 30 weeks

    Source: nidirect (NI Government), checked

  8. Not published yet: Transfer application deadline (to the Education Authority)

    Not yet published, checked 17 Oct 2026

  9. Not published yet: School place outcomes

    Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026

Year 5 now? Dates for September 2028 entryNone of these dates are published yet.

  1. Not published yet: Test day

    Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026

  2. Not published yet: Results

    Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026

  3. Not published yet: Appeal deadline

    Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026

  4. Not published yet: Transfer application deadline (to the Education Authority)

    Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026

How places are given

Admission rules and catchment
Admission rules not checked yetWe add the school's rules from its determined admission policy.
More detail from our guide

The school lists its admissions criteria as a PDF on its Year 8 Intake page, but our checking tools are not allowed to read that file. We have asked for it to be captured by hand. Until then, we will not guess at its rules.

When you open that PDF yourself, look first at the entry year printed on it. Then find the Year 8 admissions number, whether Bangor Grammar ranks by band or by score, and how it splits a tie for the last place.

The same page carries guides and editable forms for Special Circumstances and Special Provisions. Both are labelled for last year's cycle, so expect fresh versions for this year. Special Circumstances is the route if illness or another serious problem affected your child on a test day. Special Provisions is mainly for children who could not sit the papers or have come from outside Northern Ireland. Either claim is uploaded with the transfer application, together with evidence.

The test

SEAG Entrance Assessment (the NI transfer test)
Test
SEAG Entrance Assessment (the NI transfer test)
Test date, 2027 entry
Saturday 14 November 2026

Children applying here sit the same SEAG papers as everyone else in Northern Ireland. Results give a Total Standardised Age Score and a band, and each school decides how to use the resultsSEAG (Northern Ireland): Schools decide useChecked 9 Oct 2026 against SEAG (Schools' Entrance Assessment Group).The source says: Decisions relating to the Year 8 Admissions Criteria such as whether to use Total Standardised Age Score, Band, a combination of both or by some other method are entirely a matter for the Board of Governors of each SEAG school.View the official source. Until we can read Bangor Grammar's own criteria, we cannot say whether it ranks by score, by band or both. Read our SEAG transfer test guide and results explained in the meantime.

How the Northern Ireland test works

Open days

Not published yet

We have not confirmed any open morning or evening for this year's P7s. The school's website and its Year 8 Handbook are the places to look.

If you are refused a place

Reviews, appeals and the waiting list

General information, not legal advice.

This is general information, not legal advice. If Bangor Grammar cannot offer a place, the AT1 form, via the EA websiteNorthern Ireland: FormChecked 9 Oct 2026 against nidirect (NI Government).The source says: To appeal a school's decision that has refused your child a place, go to the EA website where you can send the appeal form (AT1 Form).View the official source starts an appeal. The panel only looks at whether the school followed its own criteria.

Official documents and sources

3 sources, each kept as an archived copy

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