Admissions
How to Apply
APPLICATIONS TO 1ST YEAR 2025 – now closed.
Enrolment into First Year Cohort
Children will be enrolled into 1st Year on receipt of a completed online Application Form and a copy of their birth cert during the specified time-frame in Oct-November. Application forms are available for a 3 week period from Oct 24th to November 15th 2024. Our Open Night/ Enrolment Night is Thurs Oct 24th from 7pm- 9pm. This is to facilitate sixth class students visiting Cnoc Mhuire.
Application forms and prospectuses are distributed to each 6th class student in all our feeder schools prior to Open Night. Applications after Nov 15th will be processed as late applications. Parents must accept the school’s Code of Behaviour and agree that their son/ daughter will abide by it.
Parents will be informed that they have a place by Dec 6th 2024 and they must accept this place by Dec 20th 2024. If the school is oversubscribed, placement will be offered to children who meet the following selection criteria:
- Those who come from feeder schools within the catchment area
- Siblings of pupils already attending the school
- Sons/daughters of past students
- If a grandparent is a past pupil
- Any other student
Those who enrol must be aged 12 on 1st January in the calendar year following the child’s entry into First Year. (Birth Certificate required). This is the minimum age requirement for all Post Primary schools. First Year pupils take a CAT 4 assessment in the school in late February/ early March. Equal mixed ability classes are formed based on the test results.
Additional Educational Needs
Students with additional educational needs are welcomed. The school will access such students’ records from primary school/individual educational programme in order to apply to the Department of Education and Skills for resources to support students with additional education needs. Individual records may contain the following: educational, medical, physical or psychological reports. The SENO will be contacted in exceptional cases. In Sept 2022, we opened a special class for children with Autism.Admission to Special Class for children with autism
The same digital application form as for 1st Year enrollment applies. Please complete the relevant section on ASD.Transfer from another school
Application for enrolment into any other year, i.e. transfer from another second-level school, must normally be made before May 31st. All transfers from other second-level schools (at any time) are subject to:
- The school’s admissions policy.
- The provision, by the other school, of records outlining the student’s attendance and progress.
- Availability of space.
- Decisions, in relation to admissions, are made by the Board of Management in accordance with school policy and the principles of natural justice.
- Parents have the right, under Section 29 of the Education Act, to appeal to the Trustees of the school or to the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills in the event of a refusal by the school to enrol a student.
Repeat Students
Repeat students will be accepted if resources are available and subject choices are suitable.