St Raphaela'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 ↗ (2024/25)

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.

Feeder school links

Known feeder primary schools

Primary schools that publish a feeder or priority admission link to this school:

• Kill O'The Grange NS Stillorgan
• St Pius X GNS (Fortfield Park) Terenure

Special classes

The NCSE lists no special class at this school for the coming year.

The area around this school

School planning area: Goatstown / Stillorgan / DLR. 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 A94 (Blackrock) was €830,000 in 2025. That is up 35.0% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Stillorgan-merville at 11.53 (Affluent), where 0 is the national average. 71% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Goatstown / Stillorgan / DLR

• Gaelscoil Laighean Primary school, Mount Merrion
• Goatstown Educate Together SS Secondary school, Churchtown
• Holy Cross NS, Dundrum Primary school, Dundrum
• Mount Anville Secondary school, Mount Merrion
• Our Lady's Grove Secondary school, Goatstown
• Our Ladys N S Primary school, Churchtown
• Our lady's Grove Primary School Primary school, Clonskeagh
• S N Cnoc Ainbhil Primary school, Stillorgan
• S N Naomh Lorcan Primary school, Stillorgan
• ST Olaf's National School Primary school, Dundrum
• St Benildus College Secondary school, Stillorgan
• St Brigids N S Primary school, Stillorgan