Rice College

The facts

Getting in

Not oversubscribed last year. The notice carries no previous-year breakdown, which is only required of a school that had more applicants than places.

check the notice — it lists more than one intake.

Read the school's Annual Admission Notice ↗ (2025/26)

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

1 of these are newly sanctioned for 26/27, up from 1 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: Westport. 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 F28 (Westport) was €313,750 in 2025. That is up 60.9% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Westport Urban at 1.76 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 45% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Westport

• Brackloon N S Primary school, Mayo
• Carraholly N S Primary school, Mayo
• Carrakennedy N S Primary school, Mayo
• Cloondaff N S Primary school, Mayo
• Gaelscoil Na Cuaiche Primary school, Mayo
• Holy Trinity National School Primary school, Mayo
• Muirisc Ns Primary school, Mayo
• Myna N S Primary school, Mayo
• Newport Central Primary school, Mayo
• S N Cnoc Ruscaighe Primary school, Mayo
• S N Coill Mor Primary school, Mayo
• S N Colm Naofa Primary school, Mayo