Admissions for 1st Year 2026
Applications for 1st Year 2026 will not open until Wednesday 1st October 2025.
You may submit an Expression of Interest for 2026 here.
For further details including our Annual Admissions Notice 2024 click on our General Admissions Information page.
Transition into Stratford College
To ensure students transition as smoothly as possible into Junior Cycle we have the following arrangements in place.
- Our Annual Open Day in September.
- Request in January for additional information, if any.
- A new parent’s enrolment meeting in March every year, to give parents a chance to meet teaching staff and other families. This ensures they get more familiar with the school before 1st Year begins.
- In April/May students attend an Orientation Day to meet their classmates, see around the school and hear from our current 1st Years about their subjects, books, timetables and books. This makes them more comfortable with the transition from their primary schools to Stratford.
- In August 1st Years begin the day before the rest of the school ensuring they have their lockers, timetables and have met their Class Tutor and some of their subject teachers before everyone else.
- A mentor system to ensure 1st Years have an older student to guide and support them during those first few weeks of term.
- In September we hold an information meeting for 1st Year parents on Study Skills.
- In October the Parents Association (PA) holds its AGM.
- Parent -teacher meeting, progress reports and house exams follow.