St Joseph’s N.S is a  co-educational, Catholic junior primary school. It moved to its present site in Arden View, Tullamore in 1980. Prior to this St Joseph’s N.S was situated at Convent Road, now St Philomena’s N.S.

The school was refurbished in 2004 and four new rooms were added in 2008. A second extension was completed in 2016.  Three new SET rooms were added and completed in 2023. 

 At present we have over 400 children attending our school. We have two classes catering for children with special needs, a Speech/Language class and twenty mainstream classes for children from Junior Infants to Second Class.

Our Staff:

• 24 class teachers

• 16  learning support/resource teachers

• A Home/School Liaison Teacher

• 17 special needs assistants

• Administrative Principal

• Secretary

• 3 cleaners

• Caretaker

• Play Therapist/counsellor

• 1 Music Generation tutor

• A Project worker from the School Completion Team.