Pobalscoil Neasáin

Admission criteria for First Year Entrants 2011


The Board of Management of Pobalscoil Neasáin retains the right and discretion to determine the number of pupils to be accepted by the school each year and for any class/year group. Enrolment is limited by school capacity and by the requirements of the school curriculum and organisation as prescribed from time to time by the Board of Management and as determined by Department of Education and Science regulations and standards.

The following criteria will apply with regard to enrolment:

Pobalscoil Neasáin will give preference in the following order to student application::

1. Students attending schools in the parishes of Bayside, Baldoyle, Sutton or Howth who select Pobalscoil Neasáin as their choice on the Howth Deanery form
2. Siblings of students attending or who have attended Pobalscoil Neasáin who select Pobalscoil Neasáin
3. Students resident in the parishes of Bayside, Baldoyle, Sutton or Howth who are not attending a Howth Deanery school
4. Students attending schools in the Howth Deanery area who select Pobalscoil Neasáin as their choice on the Howth Deanery form
5. Students resident in the Howth Deanery area but attending schools outside the Howth Deanery area
6. Students resident and attending a school outside the Howth Deanery area
7. Students attending Howth Deanery schools that have not selected Pobalscoil Neasáin as their choice on the Howth Deanery form.


No applications will be accepted from students attending schools outside the Howth Deanery until the Howth Deanery closing date.

In the event of the number of places exceeding the number of places available in any of the above categories, allocation of places will be done on a lottery basis. This lottery will be conducted under the supervision of the Chairperson of the Board of Management.


For incoming first years 2011 the number of places is set at 104. In the event of applications exceeding 104, the Principal in consultation with the Chairperson of the Board of Management, may extend the enrolment to 133 in the case where such an enrolment would attract sufficient teacher allocation to provide the curriculum.

Adopted by the Board of Management 28 September 2010