Welcome to St. Stephen’s De La Salle BNS! Thanks for visiting our website! Our school is an all boys primary school, founded in the late 1800s by De La Salle Brothers, and we are Waterford City’s only Digital School of Distinction and multi-time winners in the annual primary schools’ FÍS Film Competition.
We have a long and successful history in soccer, basketball, hurling and Gaelic Football competitions, and we maintain strong links with the De La Salle GAA Club. St. Stephen’s has also taken part in Chess and Debating competitions in recent years. Our menu above contains links to all the activities that take place in our school, details on how to contact us, our staff, policies that are active in our school, an archive containing photos and videos from our school’s past and options to see the many and varied opportunities available to the boys who attend St. Stephen’s.
Why not browse through our Photo Archive or our Video Archive and see just some of the learning experiences that the boys have in St. Stephen’s. You can apply for enrolment in St. Stephen’s by filling out our online form or you can download a copy to print here. You can apply for enrolment in our Autism Class online here or download a copy of our Autism Class Application Form here.
The opening hours of St. Stephen’s are as follows:
Pre-School: 9:00am-12:00pm | Junior and Senior Infants: 8:50am – 1:30pm | 1st to 6th Classes: 8:50am – 2:30pm
This school now has high speed broadband connectivity through the Department of Education School Broadband Programme, delivered as part of the Irish National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility funded by the European Union through NextGenerationEU.


This school received a grant in 2021 to implement initiatives aimed at addressing the digital divide and support our learners at risk of educational disadvantage as a consequence, as part of the Irish National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) a project under the Recovery and Resilience Facility funded by the European Union through NextGenerationEU.