The Vocational School, Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim is a post-primary (second level) school located in south-east Leitrim. It opened in 1957 as a three room building with an enrolment of 35 students and a staff of three teachers. To-day it has sixteen classrooms, an enrolment of 240 students (123 boys, 117 girls; 138 in the Junior Cycle and 102 in the Senior Cycle) and a staff of twenty teachers. Permanent extensions were added to the school in 1965, 1989 and 1992, culminating in a five classroom extension in 1995. Plans are being drawn up for a gymnasium in the school grounds to meet the sporting and recreational needs of the school and community.

An aerial view of Carrigallen and the Town Lake.

The school is co-educational and multi-denominational and draws its students from seventeen primary schools in a catchment area located in South Leitrim and West Cavan.