St Mary’s National School was established in 1945 to cater and to provide education to the populat It is a co-educational, Catholic, primary school which strives to provide a well-ordered, caring, happy and secure atmosphere where the intellectual, spiritual, physical, moral and cultural needs of the pupils are identified and addressed.

While St. Mary’s N.S. Barndarrig is a school with a Catholic Ethos it also has due recognition for all other religions. The core values of love of God and love of neighbour are lived out in our school, in a spirit of honesty, fairness and respect and appreciation of diversity.