Cross And Passion College

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.

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.

Special classes

3 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 2 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• 1 × Autism Inclusion Class

1 of these are newly sanctioned for 26/27, up from 2 classes last year.

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: Kilcullen. 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 R56 (Curragh) was €428,505 in 2025. That is up 58.7% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Kilcullen at 2.88 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 42% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Kilcullen

• Ballyshannon N S Primary school, Kildare
• S N Naomh Ioseph Primary school, Kildare
• St Brigids N S Primary school, Kildare