Parents prioritise reputation, location, and facilities when choosing a primary school

Children’s School Lives is a longitudinal study following 4,000 pupils across almost 200 primary schools in Ireland. File picture: iStock

A school’s reputation, proximity to home, and its facilities are among the factors rated as most important to parents when it comes to choosing a primary school.

The details are included in the latest round of research to be published as part of Children’s School Lives, a landmark study carried out by researchers at University College Dublin (UCD) on behalf of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA).