About The School

Set in green and spacious grounds, benefitting from all that the vibrant city of Cork has to offer to the young inquiring mind, St. Aloysius School is an institution in educational opportunity.
A Catholic school in the Mercy tradition, St Aloysius has been educating young women in Cork for over 170 years. It offers up-to-date facilities in a comfortable complex of bright, airy classrooms.

Here a warm welcome is extended to young women, whose various needs are met by a team of experienced and dedicated staff. Academic excellence and achieving one’s personal best is encouraged.

Particular emphasis is placed on developing the whole person, spiritually, morally, academically, artistically and physically. The ethos is Catholic and inclusive. The school is under the trusteeship of CEIST, the newly established Catholic Education Irish Schools Trust. If you would like to learn more about CEIST, click here to download the charter as a pdf. (Adobe Reader required, file size: 0.76 MB)

Facilities include up to date Laboratories, Specialist rooms for Languages, Art, Music, Career Guidance, Computers, Home Economics, Physical Education, Canteen, Religion Room, Prayer Room and a spacious, well stocked Library. Outside in the extensive grounds, a playing field and three all weather courts. Basketball, camogie and tennis are the most popular sports.