C.B.S. 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.

notice gives places only, no previous-year breakdown.

Read the school's Annual Admission Notice ↗ (2025/26)

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

1 special class sanctioned for 26/27:

• 1 × 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: Tralee. 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 V92 (Tralee) was €270,000 in 2025. That is up 68.8% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Tralee Urban at -10.69 (Disadvantaged), where 0 is the national average. 29% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Tralee

• Ardfert Central N S Primary school, Kerry
• Coláiste Gleann Lí Post Primary School Secondary school, Kerry
• Derryquay Mxd N S Primary school, Kerry
• Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí Secondary school, Kerry
• Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn Primary school, Kerry
• Holy Family Primary school, Kerry
• Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk Secondary school, Kerry
• Naomh Padraig Measc Primary school, Kerry
• Presentation Secondary School Secondary school, Kerry
• S N An Chroi Naofa Primary school, Kerry
• S N Breandan Naofa Primary school, Kerry
• S N Lios Teilic Primary school, Kerry