Admissions
Applying for a 1st Year Place for September 2025
The application window for places in 1st Year has now closed.
Parents can still submit an application for their daughter's 1st Year place for September 2025 using the paper-based form provided below:
Applications submitted after the closing date of 22nd October 2024 will be added to the waiting list after those applications submitted before the closing date have been processed.
Enrolling in Taylor's
The decision about which school your daughter should attend is a vital one, and one that girls and their parents do not take lightly. It is important that girls and parents make a fully informed choice after looking at all the options available to them and their children.
Dominican College has the following to offer your children:
- A long-standing tradition and culture of success, achievement, and excellence in the academic, sporting, artistic, and scientific arenas
- High expectations of students in all they do, be it academic, sporting or cultural
- Outstanding success at Junior and Leaving Cert
- A vibrant, enthusiastic, and dedicated teaching staff who are committed to helping students achieve their potential
- A welcoming and friendly environment for pupils
- Excellent care and support systems
- A focus on developing well-rounded, mature, and responsible students
- A wide-ranging curriculum
- A wide range of extra-curricular activities including hockey, basketball, Gaelic football, soccer, athletics, running club, debating, glee club, choir, music lessons & annual school musical, among others
- Excellent facilities including 2 computer suites, 4 state of the art Science labs, 2 Home Economics rooms, Art room, computers & data-projectors in every classroom
- State-of-the-art sporting facilities including an astroturf hockey pitch, gym with international size basketball court, and fully equipped fitness suite
- Our past pupils have become successful in all professions including medicine, legal, business, journalism, education, engineering, art, drama, and many others
- We do all that we can to make sure our students achieve their full potential.
We believe in the importance of working to enable students to achieve all they are capable of. We know that the key to student success lies in identifying their potential and working with them to ensure that they can reach this potential. We have excellent monitoring procedures in place which enable us to identify when pupils are not working to the best of their ability and to rectify this.
We take pride in providing a high standard of education for our students, provided by a dedicated and caring staff.
1st Year Students
The normal route for people enrolling in Dominican College is to do so at the end of their primary education.
The application window for students seeking to join Dominican College in September 2025 will open on Tuesday 1st October 2024, and close on Tuesday 22nd October 2024.
Details of our admissions criteria can be found in the document;
Pupils Transferring from other Post-Primary Schools
We frequently have requests from parents to enrol students who are already in another post-primary school and wish to join Dominican College. In this instance, parents should complete and return a Transfer Request Form. The procedures for transferring schools and offering places in Dominican College are outlined in the school's Admissions Policy.
All admissions are carried out in accordance with the school's Admissions Policy which can be found above.