The transition of St. Mary’s Junior Boys’ National School to a co-educational Community National School catering for children up to 6th class is another milestone moment for a pioneering school which has always had an ethos of putting children front and centre of everything it does.

St. Mary’s Junior Boys’ National School has had a unique place in the history of education in Nenagh; the thousands of boys who walked through its doors and experienced a very special caring environment over its 108 years bears testimony to that.

Now, however, it’s all about what’s ahead and the move to a Community National School secures not just a bright future for the school itself but for the children of Nenagh who will benefit from the town’s and the county’s only multi-denominational co-educational English-speaking school.