Sri Lanka Grade 5 Scholarship Cut-Off Marks by District (2026 Results)

This is a lookup-and-comparison tool, not a formula calculator. Its accuracy comes entirely from transcribing the official published marks correctly — so every number it shows is traceable to a specific Department of Examinations or Ministry of Education release, and nothing is predicted or estimated.

1. District cut-off lookup. For the year, district and medium you choose, the tool reads the official district cut-off mark C from the Department of Examinations dataset. The cut-off is set separately for each district and each medium, every year — there is no single national pass mark.
2. Eligibility comparison. With the child's mark M, the child is eligible for the scholarship allowance when M ≥ C. The margin is M − C: positive means cleared by that many marks, negative means short by that many. The rule is inclusive, so a mark exactly equal to the cut-off clears it.
3. School admission lookup. For each school s in the curated national-school table with admission cut-off Cs, the mark "would have qualified" when M ≥ Cs. Schools are sorted hardest first. School admission cut-offs are typically well above the district pass mark and vary by school and medium.
4. Year-over-year note.The tool reports how the selected district's cut-off moved against the previous published year, for the same medium — useful context, since cut-offs drift each year with candidate performance.

If a year, district or medium combination is not in the official dataset, the tool says "not published" instead of guessing. As a credibility check, the underlying dataset is run through an automated self-check on load — every year must list all 25 districts with no duplicates, and every mark must be a whole number within 0–200. That status is shown on the badge inside the tool.

• Department of Examinations, Sri Lanka — Grade 5 Scholarship Examination results & district cut-off marks
• Guruwaraya — 2026 Grade 5 Scholarship district cut-off marks (all 25 districts)
• Onlanka — 2026 exam date, results date and candidate statistics
• Department of Examinations — Grade 5 Scholarship Examination 2025 statistics (PDF)
• Ministry of Education — Grade 6 admission portal & school cut-off marks
• Ada Derana — official 2024 Grade 5 Scholarship district cut-off marks
• Ministry of Education — signed Grade 6 admission cut-off release, 2025 exam (all 302 schools)

District cut-offs cover the 2026, 2025, 2024 exams (all 25 districts, both media). The 2026figures were transcribed the day after results were released, from the only outlet found carrying the full district breakdown that quickly — see the note in the tool's data file for exactly how that was cross-checked, and expect it to be reconciled again once the Department's own PDF is published. The national- school cut-offs are the Ministry's complete 2025-exam list for Grade 6 admission in 2026 (302 schools, transcribed by hand from the signed PDF and independently re-checked page by page) — those do not change until the Ministry publishes admissions based on the 2026 exam, expected around November 2026. Figures were last reconciled to the cited releases on 2026-09-03.