St Johns
ANNUAL ADMISSION NOTICE
in respect of admissions to the 2025-2026 school year

Admission Policy and Application Form
A copy of the school’s Admission Policy and the Application Form for Admission for the 2025 school year is available as follows: –
To download at: www.stjohnsns.ie
On request: By emailing office@stjohnsns.ie or writing to : St Johns NS, Wyattville Road, Ballybrack, Co. Dublin, A96 NW60

PART 1 – Admissions to the 2025 school year

Application and Decision Dates for admission to 2025/2026
The following are the dates applicable for admission to Junior Infants
The school will commence accepting applications for admission on 04/11/2024
The school shall cease accepting applications for admission on 21/02/2025
The date by which applicants will be notified of the decision on their application is 14/03/2025
The period within which applicants must confirm acceptance of an offer of admission is 10/04/2025

Note: the school will consider and issue decisions on late applications in accordance with the school’s admission policy.

Special Class Application and Decision Dates for admission to 2024/2025
The following are the dates applicable for admission to the school’s Special Class which caters for children with [insert details of category/categories of SEN catered for in the class] –
The school will commence accepting applications for admission to the special class on 04/11/2024
The school shall cease accepting applications for admission to the special class on 21/02/2025
The date by which applicants will be notified of the decision on their application for admission to the special class is 14/03/2025
The period within which applicants must confirm acceptance of an offer of admission is 10/04/2025
*Failure to accept an offer within the prescribed period above may result in the offer being withdrawn
Number of places being made available in [insert school year concerned]

The number of places being made available in junior infants is 25
The number of residential places is (boarding schools only)
The number of non-residential places is (boarding schools only)
The number of places being made available in the special class* catering for children with Autism is 2

(*Note: If school has a number of classes that cater for different categories of SEN, details of the numbers of places for each SEN class must be provided)
The following text applies only to schools that made offers of school places in respect of the 2021/22 school year and those offers that were accepted prior to 1 February 2020. It should be deleted in all other cases.
[School Name] has made offers of school placement which have been accepted prior to the commencement of Section 62 of the Education (Admission to Schools) 2018 on 1 February 2020, the number of those places offered and accepted for [junior infants/ first year intake group for 20XX/20XX] is:

PART 2 – Admissions to the 2025 school year
(This section should only be completed if your school intake group/ special class was oversubscribed in the previous school year)

In respect of the [insert school year prior to that to which the admission notice applies] school year, the total number of applications for admission received by the school was__2024____
Breakdown of places allocated for the 23/24 school year:
Number of places available:
Number of applications received:
Number of Offers made and accepted under each criteria: A description of each criterion used and the number of places offered and accepted under that criterion must be entered here.
Example, as follows:
Criterion One: Applicants living in the catchment area – 40 places offered, 38 places accepted.
Criterion Two: Applicants with siblings attending the school – 20 places offered, 20 places accepted.
Total number of offers made
Number of names placed on waiting list for the school year concerned.