St Pauls Secondary School

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.

The school received 104 applications in total across every class and every special class. The 121 above is the figure for this intake alone, which is the one that can be compared with the places offered for it.

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.

What DEIS means here

DEIS Post-primary. This is extra staffing, a Home School Community Liaison coordinator, School Completion Programme access, enhanced capitation, free State exam fees, and eligibility for the HEAR Scheme for reduced-points college entry.

Post-primary DEIS benefits: Free State examination fees for Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate, Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) coordinator, School Completion Programme, and eligibility for the HEAR Scheme (Higher Education Access Route) offering reserved university places at reduced CAO points across Irish universities.

Worth knowing: several things people associate with DEIS are now available in every school. Schoolbooks are free at primary and post-primary regardless of DEIS status, and since 2025 all primary schools are eligible for the hot school meals programme. What remains specific to DEIS is the staffing — reduced class sizes in Urban Band 1, the Home School Community Liaison coordinator, School Completion Programme access and enhanced capitation.

Band as published in the Department's DEIS list, last revised 2022-10-12.

What DEIS is, band by band, HEAR college entry, and whether it says anything about how good a school is →

Special classes

3 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 2 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• 1 × Moderate General Learning Disability

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: Dolphin's Barn / D12. 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 D12 (Dublin 12) was €466,000 in 2025. That is up 46.1% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Templeogue-limekiln at 0.33 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 39% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Dolphin's Barn / D12

• Assumption Junior School Primary school, Dublin
• Assumption Secondary School Secondary school, Dublin
• Clogher Road Community College Secondary school, Terenure
• Drimnagh Castle Cbs N S Primary school, Dublin
• Greenhills College Secondary school, Dublin
• Holy Spirit Junior Primary School Primary school, Dublin
• Holy Spirit Senior Primary School Primary school, Dublin
• Lady Of Good Counsel Boys Senior Ns Primary school, Dublin
• Loreto College Secondary school, Dublin
• Marist National School Primary school, Terenure
• Meanscoil Iognáid Rís Secondary school, Dublin
• Muire Og 2 Loreto Con Primary school, Dublin