St Bernadettes Senior N S

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.

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 × 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: Palmerstown / Ronanstown / D20 / 22. 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 D22 (Dublin 22) was €420,000 in 2025. That is up 57.9% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Palmerston West at -10.14 (Disadvantaged), where 0 is the national average. 27% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Palmerstown / Ronanstown / D20 / 22

• Collinstown Park Community College Secondary school, Dublin
• Neillstown N S Primary school, Dublin
• St Bernadettes Junior N S Primary school, Dublin
• St Marys Junior N S Primary school, Dublin
• St Marys Sen N S Primary school, Dublin
• St Peter Apostle Sen Ns Primary school, Dublin
• The Kings Hospital Secondary school, Dublin