Christ King Girls' Secondary School
Half Moon Lane, South Douglas Road, Cork · T12 R22C · Roll number 62692I
Christ King Girls' Secondary School is one of 22 post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Tramore. Every school in and around Tramore →
What stands out about Christ King Girls' Secondary School
- 700 pupils, near the middle for post-primary schools in Ireland (the median is 585).
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (−10%).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- A girls’ school.
- A voluntary secondary school: owned by its trustees, most often a religious order or its successor trust, and paid for by the State.
- Its patron is CEIST; its ethos is Catholic.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Christ King Girls' Secondary School had 700 pupils in 2025/26, down from 927 in 2015/16 (−24%). Its roll rose in 1 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Christ King Girls' Secondary School
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 Christ King Girls' Secondary School 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 Christ King Girls' Secondary School
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 Christ King Girls' Secondary School
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Christ King Girls' Secondary School 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 takes girls only.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Christ King Girls' Secondary School has shrunk by 10% since 2019/20. All the schools around Tramore together changed by +1%.
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.
Of the 6 nearest post-primary schools, 1 have more pupils than Christ King Girls' Secondary School. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −10%; 3 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christ King Girls' Secondary School | 700 | −10% | Catholic | English | ||
| Coláiste Chríost Rí | 502 | −13% | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | 0.6 km | |
| Coláiste Éamann Rís | 811 | +149% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 1 km |
| Coláiste Daibhéid | 151 | −28% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | ✓ | 1.1 km |
| Presentation Secondary School | 190 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 1.1 km |
| Ashton School | 539 | +2% | Church of Ireland | English | 1.2 km | |
| Regina Mundi College | 564 | −0% | Catholic | English | 1.3 km |
The other 78 post-primary schools in Co. Cork
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas Community School | 605 | +19% | Inter-denominational | English | 1.5 km | |
| St Aloysius School | 323 | +5% | Catholic | English | 1.9 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 432 | +2% | Catholic | English | 2 km | |
| St. Angela's College | 606 | +4% | Catholic | English | 2.1 km | |
| Presentation Brothers College | 692 | −3% | Catholic | English | 2.2 km | |
| Christian Brothers College | 919 | +1% | Catholic | English | 2.2 km | |
| Cork Educate Together Secondary School | 403 | +54% | Multi-denominational | English | 2.2 km | |
| St Vincent's Secondary School | 283 | +39% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.7 km |
| St Patricks College | 218 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.7 km |
| North Monastery Secondary School | 271 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.9 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Mhuire | 690 | +20% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 3 km |
| Mayfield Community School | 362 | +28% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 3.4 km |
| Ursuline College Blackrock | 352 | +45% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.4 km |
| Nano Nagle College | 161 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.5 km |
| Terence Mac Swiney Community College | 302 | +81% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 3.6 km |
| Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh | 715 | +1% | Catholic | English | 3.8 km | |
| Mount Mercy College | 811 | +2% | Catholic | English | 3.8 km | |
| St Aidan's Community College | 309 | −23% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 4.1 km |
| Nagle Community College | 315 | +61% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 4.1 km |
| Bishopstown Community School | 306 | +0% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 4.4 km |
| Colaiste An Phiarsaigh | 578 | +6% | Catholic | All in Irish | 5.7 km | |
| St Francis Capuchin College | 730 | −5% | Catholic | English | 6.1 km | |
| Glanmire Community College | 1,141 | +3% | Inter-denominational | English | 7.4 km | |
| Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin | 302 | +156% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 7.7 km | |
| Coláiste Choilm | 1,357 | −0% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 8.1 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire gan Smal | 1,124 | +40% | Catholic | English | 8.6 km | |
| St Peter's Community School | 354 | −3% | Inter-denominational | English | 8.6 km | |
| Carrigaline Community School | 1,072 | −2% | Inter-denominational | English | 9 km | |
| Ballincollig Community School | 987 | +20% | Inter-denominational | English | 9.6 km | |
| Le Cheile Secondary School Ballincollig | 254 | – | Catholic | English | 9.7 km | |
| Edmund Rice College | 580 | +73% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| Coláiste an Chroí Naofa | 461 | −15% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Coláiste Muire | 709 | +6% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Carrignafoy Community College | 322 | +0% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 12 km |
| Carrigtwohill Post Primary | 912 | +237% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| St Aloysius College | 765 | −1% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Colaiste Muire | 523 | +16% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 957 | +13% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| St Mary's High School | 762 | +6% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Midleton College | 498 | +15% | Church of Ireland | English | 20 km | |
| St Colman's Community College | 1,171 | +51% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 20 km |
| Kinsale Community School | 1,450 | +31% | Inter-denominational | English | 21 km | |
| Coachford College | 848 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 23 km | |
| St. Brogan's College | 905 | +50% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 24 km |
| Coláiste na Toirbhirte | 456 | −8% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh | 399 | +1% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Bandon Grammar School | 712 | +5% | Church of Ireland | English | 26 km | |
| Davis College | 1,033 | +26% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 29 km |
| Coláiste an Chraoibhín | 918 | +6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 30 km |
| Loreto Secondary School | 729 | +18% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| Coláiste Cholmáin | 716 | +39% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| Patrician Academy | 568 | +1% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| St Mary's Secondary School | 749 | +6% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| St Mary'S Secondary School | 431 | +33% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| McEgan College | 289 | +60% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 34 km |
| De La Salle College | 409 | +11% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| Nagle Rice Secondary School | 260 | +39% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Sacred Heart Secondary School | 568 | +7% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Pobalscoil na Tríonóide | 1,086 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 41 km | |
| Clonakilty Community College | 696 | +17% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 41 km | |
| Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire | 589 | +34% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 410 | +27% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Coláiste Treasa | 647 | +18% | Multi-denominational | English | 44 km | |
| Presentation Secondary School | 342 | +9% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Coláiste Fionnchua | 449 | +63% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 44 km |
| Scoil Mhuire | 271 | −7% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| Millstreet Community School | 359 | +9% | Inter-denominational | English | 46 km | |
| Colaiste Ghobnatan | 212 | −8% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 48 km | |
| Maria Immaculata Community College | 642 | +28% | Inter-denominational | English | 49 km | |
| Boherbue Comprehensive School | 551 | +70% | Inter-denominational | English | 51 km | |
| Mount St Michael | 403 | +30% | Catholic | English | 51 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 109 | +11% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 53 km | |
| Scoil na mBráithre Chríostaí | 313 | +11% | Catholic | English | 54 km | |
| St. Mary's Secondary School | 322 | +10% | Catholic | English | 55 km | |
| Skibbereen Community School | 956 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 66 km | |
| Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí | 752 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | 72 km | |
| Schull Community College | 359 | −7% | Inter-denominational | English | 85 km | |
| Beara Community School | 308 | −6% | Inter-denominational | English | 103 km |
Living in Tramore
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Homes in the T12 Eircode area
Housing in Tramore →The median sale price rose from €355,000 in 2023 to €412,200 in 2025 (+16%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the T12 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Tramore
Cost of living in Tramore →New tenancies in Tramore averaged €1,701 a month in 2025, against €1,559 in 2024 (+9%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗Tramore, T12 R22C
Post-primary schools near Christ King Girls' Secondary School
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Christ King Girls' Secondary School
Is Christ King Girls' Secondary School 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 Christ King Girls' Secondary School have?
700 pupils in 2025/26. That is −10% since 2019/20.
Does Christ King Girls' Secondary School teach through Irish?
No: Christ King Girls' Secondary School teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Christ King Girls' Secondary School?
Christ King Girls' Secondary School has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is CEIST.
How do pupils get a place at Christ King Girls' Secondary School?
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 Christ King Girls' Secondary School?
The nearest are Coláiste Chríost Rí (0.6 km), Coláiste Éamann Rís (1 km) and Coláiste Daibhéid (1.1 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 Tramore; 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).