Cratloe National School

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• Susan Frawley

  05 April 2016

  St John’s is a Catholic coeducational primary school. The catchment area is the parish of Cratloe which is located in the south east of County Clare. There were a number of ‘hedge schools’ in the area in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The first permanent school was built in 1849 and is now the local Community Hall. Another, four teacher, school was built in 1965. It became clear in the seventies that this site was too small to cater for the growing school population and the present school was built in 1980. The 1965-80 school is now the local shopping centre. The present school has eight permanent classrooms and is now too small to cater for all the pupils in the parish. A prefab was added in 2001 and another in 2002. A larger prefab was added in 2006. A few smaller prefabs are used as resource rooms and Principals Office. In March 2012, as part of the Government’s prefab replacement scheme, St John’s National School was allocated funding to build two classrooms and two resource rooms. The parents’ of St John’s funded an extra resource room, disability toilet and a storage room. The new building was completed and was opened in October 2014. At present 278 pupils attend the school and this number is growing all the time.

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