Scoil Naisiunta an Dea Aoire

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.

What DEIS means here

DEIS Urban Band 2. This is extra staffing, a Home School Community Liaison coordinator and School Completion Programme access. Band 2 does not carry the reduced class sizes that Band 1 does.

Worth knowing: several things people associate with DEIS are now available in every school. Schoolbooks are free at primary and post-primary regardless of DEIS status, and since 2025 all primary schools are eligible for the hot school meals programme. What remains specific to DEIS is the staffing — reduced class sizes in Urban Band 1, the Home School Community Liaison coordinator, School Completion Programme access and enhanced capitation.

Band as published in the Department's DEIS list, last revised 2022-10-12.

What DEIS is, band by band, HEAR college entry, and whether it says anything about how good a school is →

Special classes

4 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 2 × Specific Speech and Language Disorder
• 1 × Mild General Learning Disability
• 1 × ASD Early Intervention

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: Rathfarnham. 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 D14 (Dublin 14) was €740,000 in 2025. That is up 32.6% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Churchtown-castle at 8.97 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 64% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Rathfarnham

• Ballyroan BNS Primary school, Rathfarnham
• Ballyroan GNS Primary school, Rathfarnham
• Coláiste Éanna Secondary school, Rathfarnham
• De La Salle College, Churchtown Secondary school, Churchtown
• Gaelscoil Chnoc Liamhna Primary school, Templeogue
• Loreto High School Secondary school, Rathfarnham
• Our Lady's Secondary School Secondary school, Templeogue
• Rathfarnham Parish N S Primary school, Knocklyon
• Rockbrook Park School Secondary school, Dublin
• S N Bhaile Eamonn Primary school, Dublin
• Sancta Maria College Secondary school, Rathfarnham
• Saplings Special School Special school, Leopardstown