Colin McGrath MLA (born 21 October 1975) is an Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician from Northern Ireland.

Following his completion of secondary education, McGrath attended the University of Ulster Jordanstown and graduated in 1998 in Community Youth Work.

He has criticised the eleven-plus transfer system, arguing that a level playing field is required and condemning the branding of 11-year-old children as "failures" if they fail to achieve high marks.

He supports his party position that academic selection "brands a large portion of children as failures and puts an inordinate amount of pressure on them".

[1] McGrath ran in South Down at the 2024 general election, finishing second with 10,418 votes (23.0%), to Sinn Féin's Chris Hazzard.