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Victoria College, Belfast

Selective

National rank

149

n/a

Rank last year

73^%

A-level

48.6^%

GCSE

Need to know

Head teacher Karen Quinn

Gender of entry Girls

Total pupils 897

Our methodology

Results

Grade

9.9

27.7

35.5

A*/A

37.6

A*-B

Grade

9/8

12.2

36.4

9/8/7

48.6

What the school inspection says

“Almost all of the pupils are confident, enthusiastic and highly motivated to learn. They show respect for, and sensitivity towards, the needs of others and listen keenly to the views of their peers in all learning activities. By the end of their time at school, most of the pupils can confidently apply their learning in contexts relevant to their life and work. The pupils have a clear sense of pride in their school and their behaviour, both in and out of the classroom, is exemplary. Most of the lessons observed were effective in promoting and progressing the pupils’ learning.”

Inspection

2015

In detail *

Read the full report

*Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgment in inspections of state-funded schools. A five-point grading scale, including a new “exceptional” grade was introduced in November 2025.

About the school

The college began life in 1859 as The Ladies’ Collegiate School; it took its present name during Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee year.
VCB’s “Core” values are: courage, opportunity, responsibility and expectation.
A boarding department, Drumglass House, closed in 2020 during the pandemic and has not reopened.
The school has a strong record of sporting achievement. Pupils have competed at the Horse of the Year Show and the Eventing Ireland National Championships, and have been selected for the Swim Ireland national team.
Former pupils include the sculptor Anne Acheson and the astronomer Annie Maunder, who with her husband identified the Maunder Minimum sunspot cycle.

info@victoriacollege.belfast.ni.sch.uk

Telephone

028 9066 1506

Website

victoriacollege.org.uk

Address

2A Cranmore Park, Belfast, BT9 6JA

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