[citation needed] Maynooth Post Primary opened in 1971 as a Vocational School in the grounds of the Presentation Convent and moved to its present location in 1972 under the auspices of Kildare Vocational Educational Committee (now Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board).

Maynooth is currently looking to build a new education campus, comprising a VEC and a Community College, on a greenfield site further up the Moyglare Road.

Complications in planning permission caused the development to be delayed: construction began in mid-2017.

As a part of the Transition Year Program, Maynooth Post Primary includes an optional musical production.

The students take part as cast and crew and perform the production along with the help of teachers.