Laytown & Drogheda Educate Together Secondary 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.

check the notice — it lists more than one intake.

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

2 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 2 × 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: Drogheda. 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 A92 (Drogheda) was €380,000 in 2025. That is up 52.0% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates St. Mary's at 6.23 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 48% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Drogheda

• ABACAS School Special school, Co. Louth
• Aston Village Educate Together National School Primary school, Louth
• Ballymakenny College Secondary school, Louth
• Callystown Mixed N S Primary school, Louth
• Drogheda Grammar School Secondary school, Louth
• Gaelscoil An Bhradáin Feasa Primary school, Meath
• Le Cheile Educate Together Ns Primary school, Louth
• Naomh Seosamh Primary school, Louth
• Our Lady's College Secondary school, Louth
• Presentation Convent Primary school, Louth
• Rathmullan N S Primary school, Louth
• S N Aonghusa Primary school, Louth