Type Private grinds school Principal Aisling O'Sullivan Fees €6,950 per annum Province Leinster | Established September 2002 Students ~ 100 Phone +353 45 487 811 Founded September 2002 | |
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Location Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland Address Courtyard, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland Motto A centre of excellence for learning Similar New Media Technology College, Royal College of Science f, Inchicore College of Further E, Liberties College, Marino Institute of Education Profiles | ||
Leinster Senior College (LSC) is a small private fee-paying coeducational second-level school located in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland which provides tuition for the final two years of the Irish Leaving Certificate – fifth and sixth year – known as the Senior Cycle.
Leinster Senior College caters for full-time and part-time students (including mature students), with a syllabus extending to 21 Leaving Cert exam subjects. The college, a grind school, is exam-focused with continuous tests throughout the year (known as mocks) in preparation for the Leaving Certificate Examination. The timetable is Monday to Friday with classes starting at 9am, supervised study up until 7pm, and planned study periods on Saturdays. Grinds are offered weekly, including to students from outside the school, and paid weekly and two-weekly intensive revision courses are available during school holidays.
LSC offers dedicated career guidance counselling to its enrolled students, aiding them in navigating the CAO and UCAS third-level application process. Many of the school's sixth year and repeat students apply to study medicine, and the school offers timetabled classes in preparation for the Health Professions Admissions Test (HPAT) in the Republic of Ireland and the equivalents in the United Kingdom. Uniforms are not worn and the school aims to help its students with the transition from second level into third level education. Class sizes are small, the college serves the catchment area of the surrounding counties; Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Wicklow, Laois, Carlow, and Offaly, and only a limited number of places are available for each academic year.
The college was established in 2002 by Pat Phipps, a businessman who was the finance director of a large multinational company and who later became the principal of Bruce College, Cork.
Fees are approximately €7,000 per student for an academic year, or circa €200 per week. The school is privately funded and is owned by Donal Morrissey and Mairead Morrissey of Limerick.
The current principal is Aisling O'Sullivan, BA.Ed.