F.C.J. 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.

The school received 180 applications in total across every class and every special class. The 224 above is the figure for this intake alone, which is the one that can be compared with the places offered for it.

check the notice — it lists more than one intake.

Read the school's Annual Admission Notice ↗ (2025/26)

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

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: Bunclody. 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 Y21 (Enniscorthy) was €290,000 in 2025. That is up 75.8% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Newtownbarry at -10.37 (Disadvantaged), where 0 is the national average. 25% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Bunclody

• Ballindaggin N S Primary school, Wexford
• Bunclody Community College Secondary school, Wexford
• Carrigduff Nat School Primary school, Carlow
• Kilmyshall N S Primary school, Wexford
• Kiltealy N S Primary school, Wexford
• S N Cill Damhain Primary school, Carlow
• Scoil Náisiúnta Bhantiarna Lourdes Primary school, Wexford
• St Patricks N S Primary school, Wexford
• Tombrack N S Primary school, Wexford