Scoil Muire Banríon (Edenderry BNS) is a Catholic primary school, under the patronage of the Catholic bishop of Kildare and Leighlin and with a Catholic ethos:
(a) Each human being is created in God's image .
(b) He has a life to lead and a soul to be saved.
(c) All people are equal in the eyes of God – each is entitled to an equal chance of obtaining optimum personal fulfilment.

Education is therefore, concerned not only with life but with the meaning of life.

Mission Statement:
Our aim therefore will be to enable the child to live a full life as a child and to equip him to avail of further education so that he may go on to live a full and useful life as an adult in society.

Our school is an all boys primary school with 275 pupils currently on rolls and a staff of 16 teachers, 5 Special Needs Assistants and a School Secretary. It opened in 1959.

The current Principal is Seán Fitzgerald and the Deputy Principal is Muiris Ó Scannláin. The school has an Administrative Principal, ten mainstream class teachers and five Special Education Teachers.

Our school celebtated its 50th anniversary and here below you can see the whole 09-10 school staff