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Phobailscoil Iosolde

Post-primary · Community schoolInter-denominationalDEIS

Oak Court Avenue, Palmerstown, Dublin 20 · D20 P236 · Roll number 91302F

Phobailscoil Iosolde is one of 20 post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Palmerston. Every school in and around Palmerston →

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Pupils
764
September, 2025/26
351 girls, 413 boys
Since 2019/20
−0%
from 766 pupils
Ireland: +5%
Ethos
Inter-denominational
Patron: Dublin & Dún Laoghaire ETB & Archbishop of Dublin
Language
English
outside the Gaeltacht
Results
Not published
none school by school (Education Act 1998, s.53)
The gist

What stands out about Phobailscoil Iosolde

  • 764 pupils, near the middle for post-primary schools in Ireland (the median is 585).
  • About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (−0%).
  • Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
  • 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.
  • A community school: run by a board of the local Education and Training Board and the religious or other bodies that founded it.
  • Its patron is Dublin & Dún Laoghaire ETB & Archbishop of Dublin; its ethos is inter-denominational.

Pupils over time

2015/16 to 2025/26

Phobailscoil Iosolde had 764 pupils in 2025/26, against 592 in 2015/16 (+29%). Girls are 46% of them. Its largest roll was 800, in 2022/23. Its roll rose in 7 of the 10 years.

02004006008001,0002015/162018/192021/222025/26PupilsGirls

Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.

No letter

No letter for Phobailscoil Iosolde

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 Phobailscoil Iosolde 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.

Inspections

Inspection reports on Phobailscoil Iosolde

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 in

Getting a place at Phobailscoil Iosolde

Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.

Families apply to Phobailscoil Iosolde 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.

Pupils
764
September, 2025/26
Since 2019/20
−0%
from 766 pupils

No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Phobailscoil Iosolde is about the size it was in 2019/20 (−0%). All the schools around Palmerston together changed by +1%.

Pupils since 2019/20

Phobailscoil Iosolde−0%
The post-primary schools around Palmerston+21%
All Irish post-primary schools+15%

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

2025/26

The nearest schools of the same kind, as the crow flies: their pupils, ethos and language. No results: none are published.

Phobailscoil Iosolde has more pupils than any of the 6 nearest post-primary schools. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −0%; 4 of the 5 grew faster.

Phobailscoil Iosolde764
The Kings Hospital732
Collinstown Park630
St. Seton's741
Kylemore College479
Mount Sackville636
St. Kevin's525
SchoolPupilsSince 2019/20EthosLanguageDEISAway
Phobailscoil Iosolde764−0%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓
The Kings Hospital732+3%Church of IrelandEnglish1.3 km
Collinstown Park Community College630+11%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓1.5 km
St. Seton's Secondary School741–OtherEnglish✓1.5 km
Kylemore College479+22%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓1.7 km
Mount Sackville Secondary School636−3%CatholicEnglish1.8 km
St. Kevin's Community College525+41%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓2 km
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Kishoge Community College937+12%Multi-denominationalEnglish3.5 km
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Coláiste Bríde993+4%CatholicEnglish3.6 km
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St Michaels Secondary School646+4%CatholicEnglish✓6.6 km
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Living nearby

Living in Palmerston

The town’s figures, not this street’s.

Median sale price
€400,500
routing key D20, 2023–25 (CSO): less sure
Average rent
€1,976
a month, new tenancies in 2025

Homes in the D20 Eircode area

Housing in Palmerston →

The median sale price rose from €365,500 in 2023 to €431,200 in 2025 (+18%).

2023€365,500
2024€406,600
2025€431,200

New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025

New homes€431,800
Second-hand homes€385,300

Property Price Register sales in the D20 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.

Renting in Palmerston

Cost of living in Palmerston →

New tenancies in Palmerston averaged €1,976 a month in 2025, against €1,859 in 2024 (+6%).

2024€1,859
2025€1,976

Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.

Location

Directions ↗

Palmerston, D20 P236

Nearby

Post-primary schools near Phobailscoil Iosolde

Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.

The Kings Hospital
Post-primary · Voluntary secondary · Church of Ireland
Fee-payingBoarding
732 pupils+3% since 2019/201.3 km
Collinstown Park Community College
Post-primary · ETB · Inter-denominational
DEIS
630 pupils+11% since 2019/201.5 km
St. Seton's Secondary School
Post-primary · Voluntary secondary · Other
DEIS
741 pupils1.5 km
Kylemore College
Post-primary · ETB · Multi-denominational
DEIS
479 pupils+22% since 2019/201.7 km
Mount Sackville Secondary School
Post-primary · Voluntary secondary · Catholic
GirlsFee-paying
636 pupils−3% since 2019/201.8 km
St. Kevin's Community College
Post-primary · ETB · Inter-denominational
DEIS
525 pupils+41% since 2019/202 km
Official recordInspection reports (gov.ie) ↗Department of Education school lists ↗Roll number 91302F

Questions about Phobailscoil Iosolde

Is Phobailscoil Iosolde 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 Phobailscoil Iosolde have?

764 pupils in 2025/26. That is −0% since 2019/20.

Does Phobailscoil Iosolde teach through Irish?

No: Phobailscoil Iosolde teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.

Who runs Phobailscoil Iosolde?

Phobailscoil Iosolde has a inter-denominational ethos. Its patron is Dublin & Dún Laoghaire ETB & Archbishop of Dublin.

How do pupils get a place at Phobailscoil Iosolde?

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 Phobailscoil Iosolde?

The nearest are The Kings Hospital (1.3 km), Collinstown Park Community College (1.5 km) and St. Seton's Secondary School (1.5 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 Palmerston; 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).