The Kings Hospital
The Kings Hospital is a secondary school in Dublin. 732 pupils, Church of Ireland ethos, fee-paying, 1.62 applicants per place last year.
The facts
| Type | Secondary school |
|---|---|
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ethos | Church of Ireland |
| Patron | Board of Governors of King's Hospital |
| Fees | Fee-paying — amount not confirmed. This school does not publish a figure we could trace to a page. |
| Enrolment | 732 (341 boys, 391 girls) 2025/26 |
| Language of instruction | English Medium School |
| Boarding | Mixed — day and boarding pupils |
| Roll number | 60272W |
| Eircode | D20V256 |
| Address | Palmerstown, Dublin 20 |
Getting in
Competitive. 195 applications for 120 places — 1.62 applicants per place.
| Places in the coming year | 120 |
|---|---|
| Applications last year | 195 |
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 ↗ (2027/28)
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: Palmerstown / Ronanstown / D20 / 22. 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 D20 (Dublin 20) was €440,000 in 2025. That is up 35.9% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.
Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Palmerston West at -10.14 (Disadvantaged), where 0 is the national average. 27% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.
Contact
| Principal | Mr Mark Wallace |
|---|---|
| Phone | 016436500 |
| headmaster@thekingshospital.ie | |
| Local authority | South Dublin County Council |
Other schools in Palmerstown / Ronanstown / D20 / 22
- Collinstown Park Community College Secondary school, Dublin
- Neillstown N S Primary school, Dublin
- St Bernadettes Junior N S Primary school, Dublin
- St Bernadettes Senior N S Primary school, Dublin
- St Marys Junior N S Primary school, Dublin
- St Marys Sen N S Primary school, Dublin
- St Peter Apostle Sen Ns Primary school, Dublin
How we know
DoE Schools GIS 2026 (CC BY 4.0) — checked 2026-08-27.