Sancta Maria College is a secondary school located in Louisburgh, County Mayo

County Mayo

County Mayo is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the village of Mayo, which is now generally known as Mayo Abbey. Mayo County Council is the local authority for the county. The population of the county is 130,552...

, Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

. There are approximately 350 students enrolled. The school was Irelands first Catholic co-educational secondary school.

Subjects Offered

• Junior Certificate

Religious studies, Gaeilge, English, Mathematics, History, Geography, Home Economics, French, Materials Technology Wood, Business Studies, Science, Technical Graphics, Technology, Physical Education, Civic, Social and Political education, Computing,
Health and Personal Development class

• Leaving Certificate

Religious studies, Gaeilge, English, Mathematics, Accounting, Construction Studies - building, Geography, Social and Science - Home Economics, French, Mechanical Drawing, History, Biology, Physics & Chemistry, Physical Education, Computer studies, Enterprise Education, Health & Personal Development, Conversational German, Career Preparation and information Classes, Media Studies, and Crafts/home craft.

Staff

The school currently has 25 teachers and 5 support staff. The Principal is Mrs. Pauline Moran and the Deputy Principal is Mr. Michael Davitt.

Musical

The school produces a musical that is shown annually in Louisburgh Town Hall, usually the first weekend in February.

• 1996 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
  
  
• 1997 Little Shop Of Horrors
  Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
  Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman...
  
  
• 1998 Grease
  Grease (musical)
  Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
  
  
• 1999 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (musical)
  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a musical with a book by Lawrence Kasha and David Landay, music by Gene de Paul, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn...
  
  
• 2000 Oliver
  Oliver
  The surname Oliver is of several different origins.-Etymology:The surname Oliver is derived from the Old French personal name Olivier. The Oliver surname seems to be French Norman in origin. The Olivers were probably part of William the Conqueror's Norman Invasion of Britain in 1066...
  
  
• 2001 My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...
  
  
• 2002 Calamity Jane
  Calamity Jane
  Martha Jane Cannary Burke , better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok, but also for having gained fame fighting Native Americans...
  
  
• 2003 Bye Bye Birdie
• 2004 Fiddler on the roof
  Fiddler on the Roof
  Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...
  
  
• 2005 West Side Story
  West Side Story
  West Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins...
  
  
• 2006 Finian's Rainbow
  Finian's Rainbow
  Finian's Rainbow is a musical with a book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, and music by Burton Lane. The 1947 Broadway production ran for 725 performances. Several revivals and a 1968 film version followed. A Broadway revival ran from October 8, 2009 until January 17, 2010...
  
  
• 2007 The Wizard of Oz
  The Wizard of Oz (adaptations)
  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum, which has been adapted into several different works, the most famous being the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland...
  
  
• 2008 Guys And Dolls
• 2009 Hello Dolly
  Hello, Dolly! (musical)
  Hello, Dolly! is a musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....
  
  
• 2010 Chicago
  Chicago (musical)
  Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal"...
  
  
• 2011 Little Shop of Horrors

Famous Pupils

• Bridget Gavin, Chief engineer of Ulysses, the Irish Ferries Dublin to Holyhead
  Holyhead
  Holyhead is the largest town in the county of Anglesey in the North Wales. It is also a major port adjacent to the Irish Sea serving Ireland....
  
   cruise ferry.
• John Lyons, Author and former Deputy Principal.
• P J Gibbons, Editor of Social and Personal Magazine.

In 2008 the school was ranked 15 (out of 28) in Mayo for third level attendance with 77% progressing to third level.The vast majority of students enrolled in NUI Galway.