Presentation Primary School

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.

notice gives places only, no previous-year breakdown.

Read the school's Annual Admission Notice ↗ (2026/27)

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

5 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 3 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• 2 × ASD Early Intervention

1 of these are newly sanctioned for 26/27, up from 4 classes last year.

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: Portarlington. 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 R32 (Portlaoise) was €320,000 in 2025. That is up 77.8% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Portarlington South at -3.17 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 34% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Portarlington

• Cloneyhurke N S Primary school, Offaly
• Coláiste Íosagáin Secondary school, Laois
• Naomh Mhuire N S Primary school, Offaly
• S N Mhuire Primary school, Offaly
• S N Naomh Eoin Primary school, Laois
• Scoil Náisiúnta Cúil An Tsúdaire 2 Primary school, Laois
• Scoil Phadraig Primary school, Laois