St Attracta's Senior NS

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

1 special class sanctioned for 26/27:

• 1 × 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: Ballinteer / Stepaside / DLR. 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 D16 (Dublin 16) was €643,000 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 Ballinteer-broadford at 0.44 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 46% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Ballinteer / Stepaside / DLR

• Ballinteer Community School Secondary school, Ballinteer
• Ballinteer ETNS Primary school, Ballinteer
• Clochar Loreto N S Primary school, Rathfarnham
• Gaelcholáiste an Phiarsaigh Secondary school, Rathfarnham
• Gaelscoil Thaobh na Coille Primary school, Dundrum
• Gaelscoil na Fuinseoige Primary school, Churchtown
• Goatstown Stillorgan Primary School Primary school, Churchtown
• Holy Trinity NS, Leopardstown Primary school, Leopardstown
• Marley Grange Ns Primary school, Rathfarnham
• Na Maighdine Muire Girl Primary school, Dundrum
• Queen of Angels NS Primary school, Dundrum
• Rathfarnham Educate Together Primary school, Rathfarnham