Davis College
Summerhill, Mallow, Co Cork · P51 H589 · Roll number 71020G
Davis College is one of 3 post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Mallow. Every school in and around Mallow →
What stands out about Davis College
- One of the larger post-primary schools: 1,033 pupils, against a typical 585.
- Growing: 1,033 pupils, 26% more than the 822 of 2019/20.
- Some subjects are taught through Irish.
- In DEIS. DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) gives schools serving disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and support; the Department decides which schools are in it.
- The largest of the 3 post-primary schools around Mallow.
- An ETB school: run by the county’s Education and Training Board.
- Its patron is the Cork ETB; its ethos is multi-denominational.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Davis College had 1,033 pupils in 2025/26, down from 1,296 in 2015/16 (−20%). Girls are 41% of them. Its roll rose in 7 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Davis College
Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing schools by them, so this school has no letter and nothing here ranks it. Its facts are the Department of Education’s; its inspection reports are linked below.
What the Department of Education does publish for Davis College is on this page: its pupils each September since 2015/16, girls and boys, its patron and ethos, whether it teaches through Irish, whether it is in DEIS, and its inspection reports.
Newspapers print lists of how many of a school’s leavers go on to college. Those count destinations, not exam results, and depend on who a school takes in; we don’t use them.
Inspection reports on Davis College
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate visits schools and publishes its reports. The reports describe what inspectors saw; they give no overall grade, and we don’t make one. Reports for this school on gov.ie ↗
Inspectors visit every kind of school. Whole-school evaluations look at teaching and learning, leadership and management; subject inspections look at one subject; follow-through inspections check whether earlier advice was taken. Each report is published on gov.ie with the school’s response.
Getting a place at Davis College
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Davis College directly, usually in the year before their child finishes sixth class; the school’s yearly admission notice gives the dates for applying and for its decisions.
A school with more applicants than places admits on the criteria in its admission policy, often brothers and sisters, the area it serves and, for post-primary schools, its feeder primaries. A family refused a place can appeal.
It is in DEIS, so it has extra support for pupils from disadvantaged areas.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Davis College has grown by 26% since 2019/20. All the schools around Mallow together changed by +3%.
Pupils since 2019/20
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; Department of Education enrolments 2019/20 and 2025/26 (preliminary).
Side by side with the nearest post-primary schools
2025/26The nearest schools of the same kind, as the crow flies: their pupils, ethos and language. No results: none are published.
Davis College has more pupils than any of the 6 nearest post-primary schools. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by +26%; 2 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davis College | 1,033 | +26% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | |
| Patrician Academy | 568 | +1% | Catholic | English | 1.6 km | |
| St Mary's Secondary School | 749 | +6% | Catholic | English | 1.8 km | |
| Nagle Rice Secondary School | 260 | +39% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire | 589 | +34% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 13 km |
| Coláiste Treasa | 647 | +18% | Multi-denominational | English | 19 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 271 | −7% | Catholic | English | 19 km |
The other 78 post-primary schools in Co. Cork
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste an Chroí Naofa | 461 | −15% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire gan Smal | 1,124 | +40% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| Coláiste an Chraoibhín | 918 | +6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 24 km |
| Coláiste Cholmáin | 716 | +39% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Loreto Secondary School | 729 | +18% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Scoil na mBráithre Chríostaí | 313 | +11% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| St. Mary's Secondary School | 322 | +10% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| St Aidan's Community College | 309 | −23% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 26 km |
| Coachford College | 848 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 26 km | |
| Nano Nagle College | 161 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 26 km |
| Ballincollig Community School | 987 | +20% | Inter-denominational | English | 26 km | |
| Le Cheile Secondary School Ballincollig | 254 | – | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| Terence Mac Swiney Community College | 302 | +81% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 26 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Mhuire | 690 | +20% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 26 km |
| Coláiste Choilm | 1,357 | −0% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 27 km | |
| North Monastery Secondary School | 271 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 27 km |
| St Vincent's Secondary School | 283 | +39% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 27 km |
| Mayfield Community School | 362 | +28% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 27 km |
| St Patricks College | 218 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 27 km |
| St. Angela's College | 606 | +4% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Christian Brothers College | 919 | +1% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Presentation Brothers College | 692 | −3% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 432 | +2% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Cork Educate Together Secondary School | 403 | +54% | Multi-denominational | English | 27 km | |
| Mount Mercy College | 811 | +2% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| St Aloysius School | 323 | +5% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Glanmire Community College | 1,141 | +3% | Inter-denominational | English | 28 km | |
| Bishopstown Community School | 306 | +0% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh | 715 | +1% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Coláiste Daibhéid | 151 | −28% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | ✓ | 28 km |
| Colaiste An Phiarsaigh | 578 | +6% | Catholic | All in Irish | 28 km | |
| Coláiste Éamann Rís | 811 | +149% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 29 km |
| Coláiste Chríost Rí | 502 | −13% | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | 29 km | |
| Ashton School | 539 | +2% | Church of Ireland | English | 29 km | |
| Boherbue Comprehensive School | 551 | +70% | Inter-denominational | English | 29 km | |
| Presentation Secondary School | 190 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 29 km |
| Christ King Girls' Secondary School | 700 | −10% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| Ursuline College Blackrock | 352 | +45% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 30 km |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 410 | +27% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Presentation Secondary School | 342 | +9% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Millstreet Community School | 359 | +9% | Inter-denominational | English | 30 km | |
| Regina Mundi College | 564 | −0% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Coláiste Fionnchua | 449 | +63% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 30 km |
| Douglas Community School | 605 | +19% | Inter-denominational | English | 31 km | |
| Nagle Community College | 315 | +61% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 31 km |
| St Mary'S Secondary School | 431 | +33% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| McEgan College | 289 | +60% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| De La Salle College | 409 | +11% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| St Francis Capuchin College | 730 | −5% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| Carrigtwohill Post Primary | 912 | +237% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| St Aloysius College | 765 | −1% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| St Peter's Community School | 354 | −3% | Inter-denominational | English | 35 km | |
| Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin | 302 | +156% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 37 km | |
| Coláiste Muire | 709 | +6% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Carrigaline Community School | 1,072 | −2% | Inter-denominational | English | 38 km | |
| Carrignafoy Community College | 322 | +0% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 39 km |
| Edmund Rice College | 580 | +73% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Midleton College | 498 | +15% | Church of Ireland | English | 40 km | |
| St Colman's Community College | 1,171 | +51% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 40 km |
| St Mary's High School | 762 | +6% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 957 | +13% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Colaiste Ghobnatan | 212 | −8% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 41 km | |
| St. Brogan's College | 905 | +50% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh | 399 | +1% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Colaiste Muire | 523 | +16% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Coláiste na Toirbhirte | 456 | −8% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Bandon Grammar School | 712 | +5% | Church of Ireland | English | 44 km | |
| Kinsale Community School | 1,450 | +31% | Inter-denominational | English | 47 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 109 | +11% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 51 km | |
| Pobalscoil na Tríonóide | 1,086 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 56 km | |
| Maria Immaculata Community College | 642 | +28% | Inter-denominational | English | 56 km | |
| Sacred Heart Secondary School | 568 | +7% | Catholic | English | 58 km | |
| Clonakilty Community College | 696 | +17% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 58 km | |
| Mount St Michael | 403 | +30% | Catholic | English | 66 km | |
| Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí | 752 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | 75 km | |
| Skibbereen Community School | 956 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 76 km | |
| Schull Community College | 359 | −7% | Inter-denominational | English | 91 km | |
| Beara Community School | 308 | −6% | Inter-denominational | English | 102 km |
Living in Mallow
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the P51 Eircode area
Housing in Mallow →The median sale price rose from €230,000 in 2023 to €266,200 in 2025 (+16%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the P51 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Mallow
Cost of living in Mallow →New tenancies in Mallow averaged €1,245 a month in 2025, against €1,170 in 2024 (+6%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗Mallow, P51 H589
Post-primary schools near Davis College
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Davis College
Is Davis College a good school?
We don’t grade it: Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them. Its inspection reports on gov.ie, a visit and a talk with the principal will tell you more than any table could.
How many pupils does Davis College have?
1,033 pupils in 2025/26. That is +26% since 2019/20.
Does Davis College teach through Irish?
In part: some subjects are taught through Irish.
Who runs Davis College?
Davis College has a multi-denominational ethos. Its patron is Cork ETB.
How do pupils get a place at Davis College?
Apply to the school directly. It publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice with its dates; if more children apply than it has places, it admits on the criteria in its policy.
Which schools of the same kind are near Davis College?
The nearest are Patrician Academy (1.6 km), St Mary's Secondary School (1.8 km) and Nagle Rice Secondary School (11 km).
Sources: Department of Education, school lists 2025/26 (preliminary) and enrolments since 2015/16, CC BY 4.0 · inspection reports on gov.ie, linked by roll number. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Facts from the Department of Education’s school lists. Listed with Mallow; nothing here rates the school.
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).