St Mary's High School

The facts

Getting in

Oversubscribed last year. The notice carries a previous-year breakdown, which schools only have to publish when more people applied than there were places.

check the notice — it lists more than one intake.

Read the school's Annual Admission Notice ↗ (2026/27)

Ireland has no catchment areas. A place depends on the school's own oversubscription criteria — siblings, feeder school, parish, distance, date of application — not on where you live. Read the admissions policy for those.

Special classes

3 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 3 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Source: National Council for Special Education. Children in a special class travel under a separate transport scheme with its own rules.

The area around this school

School planning area: Midleton / Carrigtwohill. This is how the Department plans where to build capacity. It is not a catchment.

Local house prices: the median residential sale price in Eircode district P25 (Midleton) was €399,999 in 2025. That is up 53.8% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Midleton Urban at -3.24 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 35% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Midleton / Carrigtwohill

• Ballintotas N S Primary school, Cork
• Carrigtwohill Community National School Primary school, Cork
• Carrigtwohill Post Primary Secondary school, Cork
• Castlemartyr N S Primary school, Cork
• Christian Brothers Secondary School Secondary school, Cork
• Cloyne National School Primary school, Cork
• Dungourney Central N Sc Primary school, Cork
• East Cork Community Special School Special school, Carrigtwohill
• Gaelscoil Mhainistir Na Corann Primary school, Cork
• Knockraha N S Primary school, Cork
• Leamlara Mixed N S Primary school, Cork
• Midleton Cbs Primary School Primary school, Cork