St Marys College

The facts

Getting in

Not oversubscribed. 60 applications for 60 places in 2025/26 — 1 applicants per place.

Ratio calculated against the previous year's places, as stated in the notice.

The school received 58 applications in total across every class and every special class. The 60 above is the figure for this intake alone, which is the one that can be compared with the places offered for it.

read from the school's Annual Admission Notice.

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: Ballisodare. 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 F91 (Sligo) was €272,400 in 2025. That is up 94.6% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Ballysadare East at 2.49 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 42% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Ballisodare

• S N Baile An Luig Primary school, Sligo
• S N Eoin Naofa Primary school, Sligo
• S N Pairc Ard Primary school, Sligo
• Scoil Mhuire Agus Iosaf Primary school, Sligo
• St Pauls Ns Collooney Primary school, Sligo