St Joseph's 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 ↗ (2027/28)

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

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: Rochfordbridge. 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 N91 (Mullingar) was €330,000 in 2025. That is up 73.7% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Castlelost at -4.7 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 28% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Rochfordbridge

• Dalystown N S Primary school, Westmeath
• Milltownpass N S Primary school, Westmeath
• Scoil Chroi Naofa Primary school, Westmeath
• St. Anne's National School Primary school, Westmeath