More than 26,000 students at fee-paying secondary schools

Outside Dublin, the largest private school is Christian Brothers College in Cork City, which had 907 students enrolled last year.  

The number of students attending fee-paying post-primary schools in the Republic has exceeded 26,000 for the first time in a decade.

New figures published by the Department of Education show there was a 1.3% increase in the numbers attending private secondary schools in the recent school year — with 345 additional pupils enrolled in 2020/21 for a total of 26,226.