Mount Temple Comprehensive School
Mount Temple Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Dublin. 903 pupils, Church of Ireland ethos, 1 special class, 4.36 applicants per place last year.
The facts
| Type | Secondary school |
|---|---|
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ethos | Church of Ireland |
| Patron | Minister for Education |
| Fees | Free |
| Enrolment | 903 (474 boys, 429 girls) 2025/26 |
| Language of instruction | English Medium School |
| Roll number | 81002K |
| Eircode | D03DX79 |
| Address | Malahide Road, Dublin 3 |
Getting in
Very hard. 628 applications for 144 places in 2025/26 — 4.36 applicants per place, and 114 names went on the waiting list.
| Places in the coming year | 164 |
|---|---|
| Places last year | 144 |
| Applications last year | 628 |
| Waiting list | 114 |
Ratio calculated against the previous year's places, as stated in the notice.
read from the school's Annual Admission Notice.
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
1 special class sanctioned for 26/27:
- 1 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders
This is the school's first special class.
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: Killester / Raheny / Clontarf. 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 D03 (Dublin 3) was €550,000 in 2025. That is up 31.0% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.
Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Clontarf West C at 11.06 (Affluent), where 0 is the national average. 71% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.
Contact
| Principal | David Bane |
|---|---|
| Phone | 018336984 |
| office@mounttemple.ie | |
| Local authority | Dublin City Council |
Other schools in Killester / Raheny / Clontarf
- ABACAS Kilbarrack Special school, Dublin 5
- Central Remedial Clinic Special school, DUBLIN 3
- Eoin Baisde B Sois Primary school, Dublin
- Eoin Baisde C Naoidh Primary school, Dublin
- Gaelscoil Mide Primary school, Dublin
- Holy Faith Secondary School Secondary school, Dublin
- Howth Rd Mxd N S Primary school, Dublin
- Killester Raheny Clontarf Educate Together National School Primary school, Dublin
- Manor House School Secondary school, Dublin
- Mercy College Coolock Secondary school, Dublin
- Naiscoil Ide Primary school, Dublin
- North Bay Educate Together Ns Primary school, Dublin
How we know
DoE Schools GIS 2026 (CC BY 4.0) — checked 2026-08-27.