St Marys N.S. Grange
Ballybrusa, Grange, via Youghal · P36 AT88 · Roll number 17997C
St Marys N.S. Grange is one of 2 primary schools in or within 3 km of Ardmore. Every school in and around Ardmore →
What stands out about St Marys N.S. Grange
- A small primary school: 60 pupils, against a typical 131.
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (−14%).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Waterford & Lismore; its ethos is Catholic.
- Outside Ardmore’s outline, 2.8 km away; listed with Ardmore, the nearest town in its county.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26St Marys N.S. Grange had 60 pupils in 2025/26, down from 72 in 2015/16 (−17%). Girls are 47% of them. Its largest roll was 72, in 2020/21. Its roll rose in 3 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for St Marys N.S. Grange
Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing schools by them, so this school has no letter and nothing here ranks it. Its facts are the Department of Education’s; its inspection reports are linked below.
What the Department of Education does publish for St Marys N.S. Grange is on this page: its pupils each September since 2015/16, girls and boys, its patron and ethos, whether it teaches through Irish, whether it is in DEIS, and its inspection reports.
Newspapers print lists of how many of a school’s leavers go on to college. Those count destinations, not exam results, and depend on who a school takes in; we don’t use them.
Inspection reports on St Marys N.S. Grange
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate visits schools and publishes its reports. The reports describe what inspectors saw; they give no overall grade, and we don’t make one. Reports for this school on gov.ie ↗
Inspectors visit every kind of school. Whole-school evaluations look at teaching and learning, leadership and management; subject inspections look at one subject; follow-through inspections check whether earlier advice was taken. Each report is published on gov.ie with the school’s response.
Getting a place at St Marys N.S. Grange
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to St Marys N.S. Grange directly. Children can start once they are four and must be in school by six; the school’s yearly admission notice gives the dates for applying and for its decisions.
A school with more applicants than places admits on the criteria in its admission policy, often brothers and sisters, the area it serves and, for post-primary schools, its feeder primaries. A family refused a place can appeal.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: St Marys N.S. Grange has shrunk by 14% since 2019/20. All the schools around Ardmore together changed by −18%.
Pupils since 2019/20
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; Department of Education enrolments 2019/20 and 2025/26 (preliminary).
Side by side with the nearest primary schools
2025/26The nearest schools of the same kind, as the crow flies: their pupils, ethos and language. No results: none are published.
Of the 6 nearest primary schools, 3 have more pupils than St Marys N.S. Grange. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −14%; 2 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys N.S. Grange | 60 | −14% | Catholic | English | ||
| S.N. Naomh Deaglan | 94 | −20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.5 km |
| Ballycurrane N.S. | 44 | −2% | Catholic | English | 3.6 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Parthalan | 53 | −28% | Catholic | English | 4.7 km | |
| S.N. an Chlais Mhor | 76 | −16% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 6.1 km |
| S.N. Baile Mhic Airt | 58 | −3% | Catholic | All in Irish | 7.6 km | |
| Gaelscoil Chorain, | 261 | −17% | Catholic | All in Irish | 7.7 km |
The other 67 primary schools in Co. Waterford
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenbeg N.S. | 143 | −3% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Aglish N.S. | 82 | −15% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| S N na Leanai | 42 | −42% | Catholic | All in Irish | 13 km | |
| Knockanore N.S. | 105 | +15% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| S N na Rinne | 131 | −14% | Catholic | All in Irish | 13 km | |
| Whitechurch N.S. Ceapach | 104 | +17% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| S.N. an Carraig Liath | 98 | +7% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Villierstown N.S. | 17 | −48% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| St Marys N.S. | 237 | −15% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 14 km |
| Scoil Naomh Seosamh | 151 | +14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 14 km |
| S N Dun na Mainistreach | 455 | −4% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Scoil Gearbhain | 310 | +4% | Catholic | All in Irish | 17 km | |
| S.N. Muire Magh Deilge | 51 | +0% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| Scoil Naomh Gobnait | 107 | −25% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| S.N. an Garrain Bhain | 225 | +22% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| Bunscoil Gleann Sidheain | 189 | −10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 19 km |
| Bunscoil Bhothar na Naomh | 284 | −8% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 150 | +2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 22 km |
| S.N. Lios Mor Mochuda | 23 | +0% | Church of Ireland | English | 22 km | |
| S.N. Cill Bhriain | 15 | −56% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| St. Marys NS Touraneena | 55 | −21% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Stradbally C. of Ire. N.S. | 24 | −29% | Church of Ireland | English | 25 km | |
| Our Lady of Mercy N.S. | 110 | +15% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| S.N. Cill Rosanta | 102 | −20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 26 km |
| Ballyduff B 2 N.S. | 108 | −13% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| S.N. Aine Nfa Seafield | 75 | −9% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| S.N. Cnoc Machan | 6 | −71% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 32 km |
| S N na bhFiodh | 58 | −22% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Ballymacarberry N.S. | 155 | −23% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Scoil Choill Mhic Thomaisin | 133 | −2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| S N na Cille | 105 | −29% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| S N an Baile Nua | 99 | −12% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Clonea N.S. | 66 | +6% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| S.N. Dun Aill | 87 | −26% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Rathgormack B N.S. | 118 | −24% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Fionnabhair N.S. | 172 | +3% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Ballyduff N.S. | 214 | −7% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Holy Cross School | 567 | −12% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Portlaw N.S. | 214 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 45 km |
| Glor na Mara NS | 381 | −9% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| Carrickbeg N.S. | 106 | −6% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| Tramore Educate Together National School | 180 | +51% | Multi-denominational | English | 45 km | |
| Gaelscoil Philib Barún | 194 | −11% | Catholic | All in Irish | 46 km | |
| S N Baile an Bhuitléirigh | 242 | −3% | Catholic | English | 47 km | |
| St Saviours N.S. | 330 | +5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 50 km |
| Gaelscoil na nDeise | 225 | −5% | Catholic | All in Irish | 51 km | |
| Waterford Educate Together NS | 386 | +16% | Multi-denominational | English | 51 km | |
| St Pauls B N.S. | 269 | +19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 51 km |
| Presentation Primary School | 446 | +7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| S.N. Ursula Naofa | 620 | −12% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| Scoil Lorcain BNS | 345 | −1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| An Teaghlaigh Naofa Girls Junior National School | 234 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| Our Lady of Mercy Senior P.s. | 292 | −5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| Mount Sion CBS N.S. | 360 | +10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 53 km |
| St Stephens N.S. | 363 | −11% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 53 km |
| Scoil Naomh Eoin le Dia | 237 | −11% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| Christ Church N.S. | 114 | −13% | Church of Ireland | English | 53 km | |
| S.N. Deaglan | 396 | −7% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| Newtown Junior School | 112 | −7% | Quaker | English | 53 km | |
| Waterpark N.S. | 235 | +0% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Mhuire | 641 | −5% | Catholic | English | 54 km | |
| Our Lady of Good Counsel GNS | 187 | −11% | Catholic | English | 54 km | |
| Gaelscoil Phort Lairge | 207 | +1% | Catholic | All in Irish | 54 km | |
| S.N. Muire an Port Mor | 212 | +0% | Catholic | English | 54 km | |
| Réalt na Mara National School | 196 | – | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | 54 km | |
| S.N. Faiche Liag | 196 | −4% | Catholic | English | 59 km | |
| Passage East N.S. | 101 | +33% | Catholic | English | 59 km |
Living in Ardmore
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the P36 Eircode area
Housing in Ardmore →The median sale price rose from €250,000 in 2023 to €281,000 in 2025 (+12%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the P36 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Co. Waterford
Cost of living in Ardmore →New tenancies in Co. Waterford averaged €1,247 a month in 2025, against €1,133 in 2024 (+10%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗near Ardmore, P36 AT88
Primary schools near St Marys N.S. Grange
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about St Marys N.S. Grange
Is St Marys N.S. Grange a good school?
We don’t grade it: Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them. Its inspection reports on gov.ie, a visit and a talk with the principal will tell you more than any table could.
How many pupils does St Marys N.S. Grange have?
60 pupils in 2025/26. That is −14% since 2019/20.
Does St Marys N.S. Grange teach through Irish?
No: St Marys N.S. Grange teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs St Marys N.S. Grange?
St Marys N.S. Grange has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Waterford & Lismore.
How do pupils get a place at St Marys N.S. Grange?
Apply to the school directly. It publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice with its dates; if more children apply than it has places, it admits on the criteria in its policy.
Which schools of the same kind are near St Marys N.S. Grange?
The nearest are S.N. Naomh Deaglan (3.5 km), Ballycurrane N.S. (3.6 km) and S.N. Naomh Parthalan (4.7 km).
Sources: Department of Education, school lists 2025/26 (preliminary) and enrolments since 2015/16, CC BY 4.0 · inspection reports on gov.ie, linked by roll number. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Facts from the Department of Education’s school lists. Listed with Ardmore; nothing here rates the school.
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).