St Mary's Secondary School

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.

notice gives places only, no previous-year breakdown.

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

6 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 4 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• 1 × Mild General Learning Disability
• 1 × Moderate General Learning Disability

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
• Scoil Bhríde Primary School Primary school, Offaly
• St Conleths N S Primary school, Kildare