Scoil Phadraig Naofa

The facts

Getting in

Competitive. 35 applications for 28 places in 2024/25 — 1.25 applicants per place.

Ratio calculated against the coming year's places — the notice does not state a comparable figure for last year, so this compares two school years.

Read this one with care. The notice gives last year's applications but not last year's places, so this divides them into the coming year's intake. If the school has grown or shrunk, the real figure is lower or higher than this.

read from the school's Annual Admission Notice.

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

The NCSE lists no special class at this school for the coming year.

The area around this school

School planning area: Dundalk. 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 A91 (Dundalk) was €332,000 in 2025. That is up 54.4% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Faughart at -5.39 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 30% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

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• Faughart Community National School Primary school, Louth
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