St Patricks Boys National School

The facts

Getting in

Not oversubscribed. 24 applications for 56 places in 2025/26 — 0.43 applicants per place, and 24 names went on the waiting list.

Ratio calculated against the coming year's places — the notice does not state a comparable figure for last year, so this compares two school years.

Read this one with care. The notice gives last year's applications but not last year's places, so this divides them into the coming year's intake. If the school has grown or shrunk, the real figure is lower or higher than this.

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

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: Donabate. 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 K36 (Malahide) was €525,000 in 2025. That is up 14.1% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Donabate at 8.5 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 55% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Donabate

• Crannog Nua Special School Special school, Co. Dublin
• Donabate Community College Secondary school, Dublin
• Donabate/Portrane Educate Together Ns Primary school, Dublin
• Gaelscoil Na Mara Primary school, Dublin
• S N C Naomh Padraig Primary school, Dublin