History
In 1951, Bishop Browne invited the sisters of Jesus & Mary to open a National School in Salthill as the population was rapidly increasing there. Scoil Íde was opened in Dalysfort House Hotel, overlooking Galway Bay, on May 1st 1952 with twenty-one pupils and three teachers, Mother M. Immaculata, Sr. Celine and Celia Burke. The numbers grew rapidly and it was decided to build a new school. The Hotel was knocked down and building started on the site. Meanwhile, school continued in the Hangar and Seapoint Ballrooms, by kindness of the proprietors.
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In 1962 the new Scoil Ide was blessed by the late Bishop Browne and officially opened by Dr. Patrick Hillary, then Minister for Education. That year a Secondary top was opened in Scoil Ide and three years later moved to Salerno, Revagh road. The aim of Scoil Ide is to give a Christian Education. It strives to develop, unify and enrich each child’s personality by an education, which is attentive to the individual, open to the world and based on the Gospel.