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Malahide Road, Dublin 3 · D03 DX79 · Roll number 81002K
Mount Temple Comprehensive School is one of 37 post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Clontarf West. Every school in and around Clontarf West →
What stands out about Mount Temple Comprehensive School
- One of the larger post-primary schools: 903 pupils, against a typical 585.
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (+2%).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- A comprehensive school: founded by the State with a church partner, which shares its board.
- Its patron is Minister for Education; its ethos is Church of Ireland.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Mount Temple Comprehensive School had 903 pupils in 2025/26, against 896 in 2015/16 (+1%). Girls are 48% of them. Its largest roll was 915, in 2023/24. Its roll rose in 5 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Mount Temple Comprehensive 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 Mount Temple Comprehensive 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 Mount Temple Comprehensive 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 Mount Temple Comprehensive School
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Mount Temple Comprehensive 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.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Mount Temple Comprehensive School is about the size it was in 2019/20 (+2%). All the schools around Clontarf West together changed by +0%.
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.
Mount Temple Comprehensive School has more pupils than any of the 6 nearest post-primary schools. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by +2%; 5 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Temple Comprehensive School | 903 | +2% | Church of Ireland | English | ||
| Árdscoil Rís | 563 | +4% | Catholic | English | 0.4 km | |
| Marino College | 297 | +21% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 0.8 km |
| St Josephs C.B.S. | 310 | +20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 0.9 km |
| Maryfield College | 527 | −11% | Catholic | English | 1.2 km | |
| St. David's College | 550 | +8% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 1.4 km |
| Rosmini Community School | 139 | +16% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 1.7 km |
The other 177 post-primary schools in Co. Dublin
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys Secondary School | 320 | +0% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 1.8 km |
| Dominican College | 799 | +7% | Catholic | English | 1.9 km | |
| Holy Faith Secondary School | 647 | +0% | Catholic | English | 1.9 km | |
| St Pauls College | 650 | +10% | Catholic | English | 2 km | |
| Ellenfield Community College | 150 | +3% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 2.1 km |
| Clonturk College | 968 | +182% | Multi-denominational | English | 2.1 km | |
| Our Lady Of Mercy College | 407 | +6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.1 km |
| O'Connell School | 222 | +8% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.2 km |
| Chanel College | 451 | −21% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.5 km |
| Mercy College Coolock | 402 | −6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.5 km |
| St. Aidan's C.B.S. | 725 | +1% | Catholic | English | 2.6 km | |
| Scoil Chaitriona | 523 | +11% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 2.7 km |
| Ringsend College | 191 | +1% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 2.8 km |
| Larkin Community College | 403 | +3% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 3 km |
| Belvedere College S.J | 1,011 | +1% | Catholic | English | 3 km | |
| Coolock Community College | 205 | +32% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 3.2 km |
| C.B.S. Westland Row | 205 | +52% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.4 km |
| St Mary's Secondary School | 830 | +2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.4 km |
| St Vincents C.B.S. Glasnevin | 408 | +13% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.5 km |
| Manor House School | 652 | −5% | Catholic | English | 3.5 km | |
| Mount Carmel Secondary School | 386 | −4% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.5 km |
| Trinity Comprehensive School | 564 | +15% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.8 km |
| Marian College | 319 | −8% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4 km |
| Sandymount Park Educate Together Secondary School | 437 | +460% | Multi-denominational | English | 4 km | |
| St Pauls C.B.S. | 244 | +15% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.1 km |
| St Kevins College | 503 | −6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.1 km |
| Árdscoil La Salle | 289 | +74% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.2 km |
| Loreto College | 588 | +5% | Catholic | English | 4.2 km | |
| The Donahies Community School | 488 | +4% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 4.3 km |
| St Josephs Secondary School | 283 | +48% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.3 km |
| Catholic University School | 544 | +7% | Catholic | English | 4.3 km | |
| St Patricks Cathedral Grammar School | 302 | +39% | Church of Ireland | English | 4.6 km | |
| St Conleths College | 339 | +19% | Catholic | English | 4.7 km | |
| Cabra Community College | 264 | +102% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 4.7 km |
| Beneavin De La Salle College | 585 | +15% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.8 km |
| Christian Brothers, Synge St. | 256 | −3% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.9 km |
| Belmayne Educate Together Secondary School | 595 | +1,883% | Multi-denominational | English | 5.2 km | |
| Presentation College | 262 | +55% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 5.2 km |
| Coláiste Mhuire | 272 | −4% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 5.3 km |
| St Declan's College | 651 | +0% | Catholic | English | 5.3 km | |
| Muckross Park College | 709 | +0% | Catholic | English | 5.4 km | |
| C.B.S. James Street | 251 | +65% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 5.4 km |
| St. Mary's College C.S.Sp., Rathmines | 500 | +17% | Catholic | English | 5.4 km | |
| St Michaels College | 731 | +10% | Catholic | English | 5.5 km | |
| Sandford Park School Ltd | 437 | +8% | Inter-denominational | English | 5.5 km | |
| Grange Community College | 553 | +98% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 5.6 km |
| St Dominics College | 790 | −1% | Catholic | English | 5.6 km | |
| Gaelcholáiste Reachrann | 453 | +2% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 5.6 km | |
| St Michaels Secondary School | 646 | +4% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 5.6 km |
| The Teresian School | 230 | +16% | Catholic | English | 6 km | |
| Gonzaga College | 576 | +4% | Catholic | English | 6 km | |
| St Louis High School | 690 | +2% | Catholic | English | 6.1 km | |
| Coláiste Eoin | 257 | +43% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 6.1 km |
| Harolds Cross Educate Together Secondary School | 437 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 6.2 km | |
| Loreto College | 320 | −20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 6.6 km |
| Pobalscoil Neasáin | 831 | +7% | Inter-denominational | English | 6.6 km | |
| Clogher Road Community College | 297 | +46% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 6.6 km |
| Alexandra College | 664 | +13% | Church of Ireland | English | 6.7 km | |
| St Marys Secondary School | 230 | −16% | Catholic | English | 7 km | |
| New Cross College | 417 | +110% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 7.1 km |
| St Andrews College | 1,011 | +2% | Presbyterian | English | 7.2 km | |
| Willow Park School | 206 | −0% | Catholic | English | 7.2 km | |
| St Kilian's Deutsche Schule | 475 | +18% | Inter-denominational | English | 7.2 km | |
| St. Fintan's High School | 714 | +1% | Catholic | English | 7.3 km | |
| Stratford College | 189 | +28% | Jewish | English | 7.4 km | |
| Coláiste Eoin | 517 | +4% | Catholic | All in Irish | 7.4 km | |
| Coláiste Íosagáin | 488 | +1% | Catholic | All in Irish | 7.5 km | |
| Mercy Secondary School | 349 | +124% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 7.5 km |
| Blackrock College | 1,041 | +2% | Catholic | English | 7.5 km | |
| Our Lady's Grove Secondary School | 295 | −3% | Catholic | English | 7.6 km | |
| Our Lady Of Mercy Secondary School | 289 | −6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 7.7 km |
| Presentation Community College | 443 | +26% | Catholic | English | 7.7 km | |
| The High School | 811 | +11% | Church of Ireland | English | 7.8 km | |
| Dominican College | 521 | +19% | Catholic | English | 7.8 km | |
| Rosary College | 250 | +35% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 7.9 km |
| Goatstown Educate Together Secondary School | 366 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 8.2 km | |
| Santa Sabina Dominican College | 754 | +13% | Catholic | English | 8.4 km | |
| Mount Anville Secondary School | 726 | +4% | Catholic | English | 8.4 km | |
| De La Salle College | 463 | +45% | Catholic | English | 8.4 km | |
| Edmund Rice College | 912 | +576% | Catholic | English | 8.5 km | |
| Oatlands College | 623 | +14% | Catholic | English | 8.6 km | |
| Sutton Park School | 503 | +36% | Church of Ireland | English | 8.6 km | |
| Terenure College | 800 | +16% | Catholic | English | 8.7 km | |
| Meanscoil Iognáid Rís | 521 | −10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 8.9 km |
| Assumption Secondary School | 270 | +8% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 8.9 km |
| Kylemore College | 479 | +22% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 9 km |
| Mount Sackville Secondary School | 636 | −3% | Catholic | English | 9 km | |
| Portmarnock Community School | 955 | +3% | Inter-denominational | English | 9 km | |
| Malahide & Portmarnock Secondary School | 696 | +939% | Multi-denominational | English | 9 km | |
| Malahide Community School | 1,250 | +3% | Inter-denominational | English | 9 km | |
| Our Ladys School | 799 | +5% | Catholic | English | 9 km | |
| St. Seton's Secondary School | 741 | – | Other | English | ✓ | 9.2 km |
| Gaelcholáiste an Phiarsaigh | 296 | +13% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 9.3 km | |
| Templeogue College | 637 | −6% | Catholic | English | 9.3 km | |
| Coláiste Choilm | 421 | −23% | Catholic | English | 9.3 km | |
| St Benildus College | 949 | +18% | Catholic | English | 9.3 km | |
| Loreto High School | 625 | −5% | Catholic | English | 9.4 km | |
| Newpark Comprehensive School | 884 | +3% | Church of Ireland | English | 9.4 km | |
| St Raphaela's Secondary School | 637 | +12% | Catholic | English | 9.6 km | |
| Loreto College | 655 | +4% | Catholic | English | 9.6 km | |
| Castleknock College | 771 | +10% | Catholic | English | 9.7 km | |
| St. Tiernan's Community School | 368 | +7% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 9.7 km |
| Rockford Manor Secondary School | 273 | −1% | Catholic | English | 9.9 km | |
| St Pauls Secondary School | 466 | +4% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 9.9 km |
| Ballinteer Community School | 415 | +2% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 10 km |
| Christian Brothers College | 549 | +7% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| Greenhills College | 186 | +36% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 10 km |
| Le Cheile Secondary School | 944 | +26% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| Wesley College | 942 | +2% | Methodist | English | 10 km | |
| Fingal Community College | 864 | +1% | Inter-denominational | English | 10 km | |
| Coláiste Éanna | 618 | +3% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| Phobailscoil Iosolde | 764 | −0% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 10 km |
| St Mac Dara's Community College | 915 | +7% | Inter-denominational | English | 11 km | |
| St Finians Community College | 671 | +4% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 11 km |
| Sancta Maria College | 577 | +5% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| The Kings Hospital | 732 | +3% | Church of Ireland | English | 11 km | |
| Swords Community College | 952 | +473% | Multi-denominational | English | 11 km | |
| Rath Dara Community College | 323 | +28% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 11 km |
| Loreto College Foxrock | 660 | +27% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Castleknock Community College | 1,318 | +13% | Multi-denominational | English | 11 km | |
| Tallaght Community School | 840 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 11 km |
| Coláiste de hÍde | 266 | −11% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | ✓ | 11 km |
| Scoil Phobail Chuil Mhin | 1,014 | −1% | Inter-denominational | English | 12 km | |
| St. Colmcille's Community School | 727 | −0% | Inter-denominational | English | 12 km | |
| St Columba's College | 357 | +7% | Church of Ireland | English | 12 km | |
| Holy Child Community School | 275 | +12% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 12 km |
| Clonkeen College | 635 | +10% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Collinstown Park Community College | 630 | +11% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 12 km |
| Rathdown School | 364 | +38% | Church of Ireland | English | 12 km | |
| Rosemont School | 307 | +69% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Kingswood Community College | 1,006 | +93% | Multi-denominational | English | 12 km | |
| Stepaside Educate Together Secondary School | 741 | +246% | Multi-denominational | English | 12 km | |
| St. Kevin's Community College | 525 | +41% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 12 km |
| Blakestown Community School | 563 | +31% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 12 km |
| Luttrellstown Community College | 1,027 | +15% | Multi-denominational | English | 12 km | |
| Coláiste Bríde | 993 | +4% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| St Joseph Of Cluny Secondary School | 270 | +7% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Moyle Park College | 763 | +3% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Loreto Abbey Secondary School | 757 | +16% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Rockbrook Park School | 186 | +14% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Cabinteely Community School | 512 | +12% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 13 km |
| Coláiste Chilliain | 400 | −4% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 13 km | |
| Hartstown Community School | 1,120 | −1% | Inter-denominational | English | 13 km | |
| Firhouse Community College | 825 | +2% | Inter-denominational | English | 13 km | |
| Firhouse Educate Together Secondary School | 411 | +407% | Multi-denominational | English | 13 km | |
| Old Bawn Community School | 1,024 | +12% | Inter-denominational | English | 14 km | |
| Kishoge Community College | 937 | +12% | Multi-denominational | English | 14 km | |
| Griffeen Community College | 576 | +317% | Multi-denominational | English | 14 km | |
| St Marks Community School | 931 | +12% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 14 km |
| Coláiste Phádraig CBS | 745 | +38% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Deansrath Community College | 425 | +43% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 14 km |
| St Laurence College | 302 | +17% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 14 km |
| Coláiste Cois Life | 592 | −27% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 14 km | |
| Blackrock Educate Together Secondary School | 236 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 14 km | |
| Coláiste Pobail Setanta | 1,079 | +2% | Multi-denominational | English | 14 km | |
| Donabate Community College | 799 | +5% | Multi-denominational | English | 14 km | |
| St Joseph's College | 934 | +6% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Holy Child Killiney | 382 | +9% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Eriu Community College | 193 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 15 km | |
| Hansfield ETSS | 867 | +34% | Multi-denominational | English | 15 km | |
| Lucan Community College | 966 | +5% | Multi-denominational | English | 15 km | |
| Killinarden Community School | 471 | −3% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 16 km |
| St Aidan's Community School | 561 | +28% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 16 km |
| Mount Seskin Community College | 350 | +8% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 16 km |
| Adamstown Community College | 981 | +8% | Multi-denominational | English | 16 km | |
| Coláiste pobail Fóla | 758 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 17 km | |
| John Scottus Secondary School | 211 | +77% | Inter-denominational | English | 18 km | |
| Woodbrook College | 623 | +51% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 18 km |
| Lusk Community College | 1,104 | +61% | Multi-denominational | English | 18 km | |
| St Joseph's Secondary School | 945 | +19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 19 km |
| Holy Family Community School | 998 | +4% | Inter-denominational | English | 20 km | |
| Skerries Community College | 1,025 | +5% | Inter-denominational | English | 24 km | |
| Ardgillan Community College | 1,014 | +6% | Multi-denominational | English | 26 km | |
| Bremore Educate Together Secondary School | 824 | +124% | Multi-denominational | English | 26 km | |
| Coláiste Ghlór na Mara | 520 | +63% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 27 km | |
| Balbriggan Community College | 686 | +33% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 27 km |
| Loreto Secondary School | 1,220 | −5% | Catholic | English | 27 km |
Living in Clontarf West
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the D03 Eircode area
Housing in Clontarf West →The median sale price rose from €443,000 in 2023 to €535,900 in 2025 (+21%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the D03 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Clontarf West
Cost of living in Clontarf West →New tenancies in Clontarf West averaged €2,155 a month in 2025, against €2,068 in 2024 (+4%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
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Clontarf West, D03 DX79
Post-primary schools near Mount Temple Comprehensive School
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Mount Temple Comprehensive School
Is Mount Temple Comprehensive 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 Mount Temple Comprehensive School have?
903 pupils in 2025/26. That is +2% since 2019/20.
Does Mount Temple Comprehensive School teach through Irish?
No: Mount Temple Comprehensive School teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Mount Temple Comprehensive School?
Mount Temple Comprehensive School has a Church of Ireland ethos. Its patron is Minister for Education.
How do pupils get a place at Mount Temple Comprehensive 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 Mount Temple Comprehensive School?
The nearest are Árdscoil Rís (0.4 km), Marino College (0.8 km) and St Josephs C.B.S. (0.9 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 Clontarf West; 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).