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Foyle College: Year 8 entry

67A Limavady Road, Londonderry, BT47 6LR

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

    126

    2026 entry, Published Admission Number ()

    Checked, source: Foyle College, checked

  • 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. Foyle College'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Most Northern Ireland schools do not publish how far places reached.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

Foyle College in brief

tap a value for its source

Year 8 places
126Year 8 placesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Foyle College.The source says: Admissions No 126View the official source2026 entry
The (PAN): how many children the school plans to admit.
Pupils
co-educationalPupilsChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Foyle College.The source says: Co-Educational, Non-Denominational, Voluntary Grammar SchoolView the official source
Who the school admits.
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.

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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 college's most recent criteria are called "Admissions Criteria 2026/27Foyle College: Document title (2026)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Foyle College.The source says: Admissions Criteria 2026/27View the official source", for September 2026 entry. Our archive tool could not open the copy hosted by the EA, so we cannot yet say whether Foyle ranks by score or by band, or how it breaks ties. We are working to add it. Until then, please read the document on the college or EA website.

On special circumstances, we do know this much: School publishes the 2025-26 Special Circumstances and Special Provisions guides and forms; forms are uploaded via the EA portal, not to the school. Detailed procedure is in the (uncaptured) criteria PDF.Foyle College: Special circumstances (2026)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Foyle College.The source says: Please note that forms for Special Circumstances and Special Provisions should not be submitted to individual schools but uploaded via the EA portal.View the official source

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

Foyle uses the SEAG Entrance AssessmentFoyle College: Test family by entry year (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against SEAG (Schools' Entrance Assessment Group).The source says: All 63 post-primary schools in N. Ireland which include academic selection within their Year 8 admissions criteria accept the SEAG Entrance Assessment Outcomes.View the official source and also hosts candidates on test days. The 2027 test has two papers, English (or Irish) and mathsSEAG (Northern Ireland): the two test papersChecked 9 Oct 2026 against SEAG (Schools' Entrance Assessment Group).The source says: The SEAG Entrance Assessment consists of two Papers: Paper 1 and Paper 2. Both Papers have an identical format and are set at the same level of difficulty.View the official source; results follow on Saturday 23 January 2027SEAG (Northern Ireland): OutcomesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against SEAG (Schools' Entrance Assessment Group).The source says: It is planned that SEAG results will be released on Saturday 23rd January 2027.View the official source. Every SEAG school writes its own rules for using results, so Foyle's may differ from a neighbouring grammar's. For how scores and bands work, see the SEAG transfer test guide or results explained.

How the Northern Ireland test works

Open days

All this year's events have passed

  1. Done: Open Day / Open Evening (passed)

    P7 at 9:30am; P6 at 10:45am

Source: Foyle College, checked

If you are refused a place

Reviews, appeals and the waiting list

General information, not legal advice.

This is general information, not legal advice.

A family refused a place at Foyle may appeal to an independent tribunal. Its job is narrow: to decide whether the college followed its published criteria correctly. It does not rewrite them. The EA publishes the appeal form and dates; for 2027 entry the deadline is 4pm, Thursday 20 May 2027Northern Ireland transfer: Appeal deadlineChecked 17 Oct 2026 against nidirect (NI Government).The source says: The deadline for receipt of appeal forms against Year 8 decisions by post-primary schools is Thursday 20 May 2027, no later than 4.00 pm.View the official source.

Official documents and sources

6 sources, each kept as an archived copy

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