Aghards N S

The facts

Getting in

Oversubscribed last year. The notice carries a previous-year breakdown, which schools only have to publish when more people applied than there were places.

check the notice — it lists more than one intake.

Read the school's Annual Admission Notice ↗

Ireland has no catchment areas. A place depends on the school's own oversubscription criteria — siblings, feeder school, parish, distance, date of application — not on where you live. Read the admissions policy for those.

Special classes

2 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 2 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders

This is the school's first special class.

Source: National Council for Special Education. Children in a special class travel under a separate transport scheme with its own rules.

The area around this school

School planning area: Celbridge. This is how the Department plans where to build capacity. It is not a catchment.

Local house prices: the median residential sale price in Eircode district W23 (Celbridge) was €484,999 in 2025. That is up 27.6% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Celbridge at 5.88 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 49% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Celbridge

• Celbridge Community School Secondary school, Kildare
• North Kildare Educate Together Ns Primary school, Kildare
• Primrose Hill Ns Primary school, Kildare
• Salesian College Secondary school, Kildare
• Scoil Na Mainistreach Primary school, Kildare
• Scoil Naomh Brid Primary school, Kildare
• Scoil Naomh Padraig Primary school, Kildare
• St Annes National School Primary school, Kildare
• St Raphaels Special Sch Special school, CELBRIDGE
• St Wolstan's Community School Secondary school, Kildare
• Straffan N S Primary school, Kildare