St. John's National School

The facts

Special classes

3 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 3 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders

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: Kilkenny. 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 R95 (Kilkenny) was €350,000 in 2025. That is up 62.8% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Kilkenny No. 2 Urban at -1.37 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 43% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

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