Admission criteria for 1st Year Entrants
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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::
- Students resident in or attending schools in the parishes of Bayside, Baldoyle, Sutton or Howth who select Pobalscoil Neasáin as their first choice on the Howth Deanery form
- Siblings of students attending or who have attended Pobalscoil Neasáin who select Pobalscoil Neasáin as their first choice on the Howth Deanery form
- Students resident in or attending schools in the Howth Deanery area who select Pobalscoil Neasáin as their first choice on the Howth Deanery form
- Students resident outside the Howth Deanery area
- Students attending Howth Deanery schools that have not selected Pobalscoil Neasáin as their choice on the Howth Deanery form.