St Josephs C.B.S.

The facts

Getting in

Hard. 135 applications for 72 places — 1.88 applicants per place, and 68 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

4 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 4 × 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: Drumcondra / Marino / Dublin1. 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 D at 10.33 (Affluent), where 0 is the national average. 59% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Drumcondra / Marino / Dublin1

• An Taonad Reamhscoile Special school, BAILE ATHA CLIATH 1
• Belvedere College S.J Secondary school, Dublin
• Central Infs School Primary school, Dublin
• Central Senior Mxd N S Primary school, Dublin
• Corpus Christi N S Primary school, Dublin
• Dominican College Secondary school, Dublin
• Drumcondra N S Primary school, Dublin
• Gaelscoil Cholaiste Mhuire Primary school, Dublin
• Gaelscoil Áine Primary school, Dublin
• Gardiner Street Convent Primary school, Dublin
• Grace Park Educate Together National School Primary school, Dublin
• Henrietta Street School Special school, Dublin 1