Holy Family Senior N S

The facts

Getting in

Not oversubscribed last year. The notice carries no previous-year breakdown, which is only required of a school that had more applicants than places.

notice gives places only, no previous-year breakdown.

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

2 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 2 × Specific Learning Disability

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: Swords. 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 K67 (Swords) was €441,250 in 2025. That is up 29.4% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Swords-forrest at 5.61 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 46% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Swords

• Brackenstown Senior N S Primary school, Dublin
• Brighde Naofa Primary school, Dublin
• Broadmeadow Community National School Primary school, Dublin
• Coláiste Choilm Secondary school, Dublin
• Fingal Community College Secondary school, Dublin
• Gaelscoil Bhrian Bóroimhe Primary school, Dublin
• Holy Family Junior N S Primary school, Dublin
• Holywell Educate Together National School Primary school, Dublin
• Loreto College Secondary school, Dublin
• Mary Queen Of Ireland N S Primary school, Dublin
• River Valley Cns Primary school, Dublin
• S N Cholmcille C Primary school, Dublin