Enable Ireland Sandymount School
SANDYMOUNT AVENUE, DUBLIN 4 · D04 XH22 · Roll number 18370J
Enable Ireland Sandymount School is one of 13 special schools in or within 3 km of Sandymount. Every school in and around Sandymount →
What stands out about Enable Ireland Sandymount School
- 49 pupils, near the middle for special schools in Ireland (the median is 58).
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (+14%).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Its patron is Enable Ireland Disability Services; its ethos is Catholic.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Enable Ireland Sandymount School had 49 pupils in 2025/26, against 49 in 2015/16 (+0%). Girls are 49% of them. Its roll rose in 4 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Enable Ireland Sandymount 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 Enable Ireland Sandymount 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 Enable Ireland Sandymount 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 Enable Ireland Sandymount School
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Places at Enable Ireland Sandymount School follow a professional report on the child’s needs; the National Council for Special Education’s local special educational needs organiser helps families apply.
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.
Places in special classes and special schools are allocated with the National Council for Special Education.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Enable Ireland Sandymount School has grown by 14% since 2019/20. All the schools around Sandymount together changed by +7%.
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 special 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 special schools, 3 have more pupils than Enable Ireland Sandymount School. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by +14%; 1 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enable Ireland Sandymount School | 49 | +14% | Catholic | English | ||
| St Declans Special Sch | 35 | −3% | Catholic | English | 1.4 km | |
| Catherine Mc Auley N Sc | 99 | +0% | Catholic | English | 2 km | |
| St L O Tooles 2 Spec | 14 | −42% | Catholic | English | 3.3 km | |
| An Taonad Reamhscoile | 96 | −3% | Catholic | English | 3.6 km | |
| Benincasa Special School | 35 | −22% | Catholic | English | 3.8 km | |
| St Peters Special Sch | 70 | +17% | Catholic | English | 4 km |
The other 48 special schools in Co. Dublin
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital School CHI at Temple Street | 66 | −3% | Catholic | English | 4.2 km | |
| Henrietta Street School | 20 | +0% | Catholic | English | 4.3 km | |
| St Joseph's Adolescent School | 11 | – | Catholic | English | 4.3 km | |
| Central Remedial Clinic | 78 | −18% | Catholic | English | 4.5 km | |
| An Cosan CSS | 56 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 4.7 km | |
| St Josephs for Blind N.S. | 48 | −16% | Catholic | English | 4.9 km | |
| St Augustines School | 157 | −1% | Catholic | English | 5.2 km | |
| Our Lady of Hope School | 45 | – | Catholic | English | 5.9 km | |
| St Oliver Plunkett Sp Sc | 63 | +0% | Catholic | English | 6 km | |
| Scoil Eoin | 142 | +5% | Catholic | English | 6 km | |
| St John of God Sp Sch | 86 | −2% | Catholic | English | 6.3 km | |
| Red Door Special School | 29 | +21% | Other | English | 6.3 km | |
| St Michaels Hse Spec Sc | 64 | +31% | Catholic | English | 6.4 km | |
| Solas Hospital School | 98 | +26% | Multi-denominational | English | 6.7 km | |
| St Michaels Hse Spec Sc | 68 | −1% | Catholic | English | 6.7 km | |
| St Pauls Hospital Special School | 54 | +0% | Catholic | English | 6.8 km | |
| Libermann Spiritan School | 51 | – | Catholic | English | 6.9 km | |
| Beaumont Hospital Special School | 9 | – | Other | English | 6.9 km | |
| Holy Family School for the Deaf | 134 | −4% | Catholic | English | 6.9 km | |
| St Michaels Hse Sp Sch | 52 | −10% | Catholic | English | 6.9 km | |
| St Ciarans Spec Sch | 140 | +0% | Catholic | English | 7 km | |
| Saplings Special School | 30 | +0% | Multi-denominational | English | 7.5 km | |
| St Michael's House Special National School Foxfield | 61 | +144% | Multi-denominational | English | 7.5 km | |
| Our Lady of Lourdes School | 6 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 7.5 km | |
| Cheeverstown Sp Sch | 29 | +45% | Catholic | English | 7.5 km | |
| ABACAS Kilbarrack | 54 | +10% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | 7.5 km | |
| Belmayne Community Special School | 2 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 7.5 km | |
| Casa Caterina S S | 31 | −6% | Catholic | English | 7.6 km | |
| Setanta Special School | 68 | +28% | Multi-denominational | English | 7.8 km | |
| Carmona Special National School | 37 | +3% | Catholic | English | 7.8 km | |
| St Vincents Home NS | 68 | −1% | Catholic | English | 8.4 km | |
| Phoenix Park Specialist School | 17 | – | Catholic | English | 8.4 km | |
| Youth Encounter Project | 14 | – | Catholic | English | 8.9 km | |
| St Josephs Special Sch | 86 | +4% | Catholic | English | 9 km | |
| St Roses Special School | 63 | +0% | Catholic | English | 9.5 km | |
| St Michaels Spec School | 163 | −2% | Catholic | English | 9.5 km | |
| St Michaels House Special School | 56 | +0% | Multi-denominational | English | 9.7 km | |
| ABACAS Special School for Children with Autism | 30 | +3% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | 9.8 km | |
| Ballyowen Meadows | 53 | +13% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Linn Dara Schools | 51 | +70% | Multi-denominational | English | 11 km | |
| The Adelaide and Meath Hospital | 11 | – | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Ballydowd High Support Special School | 7 | – | Inter-denominational | English | 13 km | |
| Danu Community Special School | 43 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 13 km | |
| Stewarts School | 145 | +23% | Multi-denominational | English | 13 km | |
| Scoil Mochua | 69 | −7% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Lucan Community Special School | 0 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 16 km | |
| Crannog Nua Special School | 5 | – | Other | English | 19 km | |
| St Michaels Spec Sch | 30 | +0% | Catholic | English | 27 km |
Living in Sandymount
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the D04 Eircode area
Housing in Sandymount →The median sale price rose from €650,000 in 2023 to €685,000 in 2025 (+5%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the D04 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Sandymount
Cost of living in Sandymount →New tenancies in Sandymount averaged €2,419 a month in 2025, against €2,298 in 2024 (+5%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗Sandymount, D04 XH22
Special schools near Enable Ireland Sandymount School
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Enable Ireland Sandymount School
Is Enable Ireland Sandymount 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 Enable Ireland Sandymount School have?
49 pupils in 2025/26. That is +14% since 2019/20.
Does Enable Ireland Sandymount School teach through Irish?
No: Enable Ireland Sandymount School teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Enable Ireland Sandymount School?
Enable Ireland Sandymount School has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Enable Ireland Disability Services.
How do pupils get a place at Enable Ireland Sandymount 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 Enable Ireland Sandymount School?
The nearest are St Declans Special Sch (1.4 km), Catherine Mc Auley N Sc (2 km) and St L O Tooles 2 Spec (3.3 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 Sandymount; 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).