By 1847 the school had 30 boys with one teacher while payment was made for 21 girls to attend the National School. In 1851 it was considered to be the best boys' school in the county for intellectual and religious instruction. By 1857 there were between 20 and 30 boys and girls under one mistress and shoemaking was being taught to five boys by an outside instructor. The school probably closed around 1863.