Scoil Bhríde 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.

this notice describes more than one intake — read it directly.

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.

What DEIS means here

DEIS Urban Band 2. This is extra staffing, a Home School Community Liaison coordinator and School Completion Programme access. Band 2 does not carry the reduced class sizes that Band 1 does.

Added to DEIS in the 2022 expansion, so its supports are relatively recent.

Worth knowing: several things people associate with DEIS are now available in every school. Schoolbooks are free at primary and post-primary regardless of DEIS status, and since 2025 all primary schools are eligible for the hot school meals programme. What remains specific to DEIS is the staffing — reduced class sizes in Urban Band 1, the Home School Community Liaison coordinator, School Completion Programme access and enhanced capitation.

Band as published in the Department's DEIS list, last revised 2022-10-12.

What DEIS is, band by band, HEAR college entry, and whether it says anything about how good a school is →

Special classes

6 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 6 × 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: Edenderry. 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 R45 (Edenderry) was €307,000 in 2025. That is up 80.6% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Edenderry Urban at -9.1 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 23% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Edenderry

• Castlejordan Central Ns Primary school, Offaly
• Edenderry 2 N S Primary school, Offaly
• Edenderry Convent N S Primary school, Offaly
• Gaelscoil Éadan Doire Primary school, Offaly
• Oaklands Community College Secondary school, Offaly
• S N Brighde Primary school, Kildare
• S N Cloch Rinnce Primary school, Kildare
• S N Mhuire Naofa Primary school, Offaly
• S N Phadraig Primary school, Offaly
• S N Scoil Treasa Primary school, Kildare
• St Conleths N S Primary school, Kildare
• St Mary's Secondary School Secondary school, Offaly