Post primary school advice

I have a p6 kid probably doing the transfer test but I don’t know if they’ll pass. I didn’t grow up where we live now so I don’t know much about the schools.

Can anyone tell me about the schools in the Antrim/lisburn/crumlin/north Belfast areas?

I’m most interested in knowing about which schools will take kids without transfer test but still have an environment the encourages attendance and learning.

Where I grew up our local comprehensive largely tolerated truancy and a lot of the kids had drug habits and criminal records before they were old enough to drive.