St Joseph's Secondary School

The facts

Special classes

1 special class sanctioned for 26/27:

• 1 × 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: Castlebar. 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 F23 (Castlebar) was €271,000 in 2025. That is up 66.8% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Castlebar Urban at -5.44 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 39% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

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Other schools in Castlebar

• Ballintubber N S Primary school, Mayo
• Ballyvary Central N S Primary school, Mayo
• Breaffy N S Primary school, Mayo
• Castlebar Educate Together National School Primary school, Mayo
• Castlebar Primary School Primary school, Mayo
• Crimlin N S Primary school, Mayo
• Davitt College Secondary school, Mayo
• Gaelscoil Raifteirí Primary school, Mayo
• S N An Coill Mhor Primary school, Mayo
• S N An Teaghlaigh Primary school, Mayo
• S N B Curnanool Primary school, Mayo
• S N Naomh Brid C Primary school, Mayo