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Belfast High School is a Voluntary Grammar School located at Jordanstown in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies within the North Eastern Region of the Education Authority. In March 2012 it has been recognised as one of only six post-primary schools in Northern Ireland to be in the top 10% for performance at both GCSE and A-level.
In May 2007, Belfast High was awarded Specialist Status in the field of Languages, one of only 13 schools to receive such a status. It is consistently awarded the International Schools Award, once from 2008–11 and again from 2011–14, and it is one of only five schools in the UK and the only one in Northern Ireland to win The European Language Label Award from the European Commission.[citation needed] These awards have culminated in the school receiving half a million pounds in additional funding for the study of languages.
Belfast High School is academically selective, meaning that all pupils wishing to gain admission to the school must sit a specially designed exam and attain over a set boundary in order to matriculate. In 2011, 59% of applicants to the school were admitted.