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.

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