St. David's College

The facts

Getting in

Hard. 278 applications for 120 places — 2.32 applicants per place, and 158 names went on the waiting list.

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

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: Beaumont / Coolock D5. 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 D05 (Dublin 5) was €520,000 in 2025. That is up 37.2% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Beaumont D at 1.61 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 41% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Beaumont / Coolock D5

• Beaumont Hospital Special School Special school, Dublin 9
• Chanel College Secondary school, Dublin
• Coolock Community College Secondary school, Dublin
• Cromcastle Green B N S Primary school, Dublin
• Ellenfield Community College Secondary school, Dublin
• Gaelscoil Cholmcille Primary school, Dublin
• Maryfield College Secondary school, Dublin
• Our Lady Of Mercy College Secondary school, Dublin
• S N Mhuire Na Mbrathar Primary school, Dublin
• Scoil Fhiachra Soisir Primary school, Dublin
• Scoil Nais Ide Cailini Primary school, Dublin
• St Davids N S Primary school, Dublin