St Kilian's German School

St Kilian's German School
St Kilians Deutsche Schule
St Kilian's German School; St Kilians Deutsche Schule
Address
	St Kilian’s German School, Eurocampus, Roebuck Road, Clonskeagh, D14 P7F2 Dublin, Ireland; Clonskeagh, Dublin; Ireland
Coordinates	53°18′12″N 6°13′46″W / 53.303406°N 6.229549°W
Information
Type	Independent
Motto	Fairness-courtesy-respect
Established	1952
Principal	Anja Meier (Overall), Nigel MacMillan (Secondary School), Annette Black (Head of Primary and Kindergarten)
Grades	Junior and Senior Infants, 1st-6th class, 1st-6th year
Colour(s)	red
Website	School website

St Kilian's German School (Deutsche Schule Dublin - DSD) is an independent German international school in Dublin, Ireland.

Programme

St Kilian's is legally a single organisation, with a primary school, offering kindergarten (junior infants) and vorschule (senior infants) and main primary school (1st to 6th classes),^[1] and a secondary school. It is open to students from ages 4 to 18.^[2]

German is taught from the start, but is not required for entry.^[1] In primary school and secondary school, where relevant, input from the school programme of the German state of Baden-Württemberg is used.^[3] Depending on development of German language skills, pupils may have the option to pursue a German curriculum stream from 5th class.^[1] The school provides German language education beyond the level required by the Irish German curriculum, enabling pupils to take the German Sprachdiplom exams and qualify with the linguistic level required to enter German universities.^[4]

Some classes in the Junior Cycle (1st to 3rd years) are shared with the Lycée Français d'Irlande.^[4]

History

St Kilian's was founded in the early 1950s,^[2] developing from the work of a Dublin charity, the Save the German Children Society, founded in 1945.^[5]

Since 2002, St Kilian's has shared sites with Lycée Française d'Irlande, the combined campus known as the "Eurocampus".^[6]

The secondary school has a typical rate of progression to third-level of 90-100%. In 2020 this reduced to 63%, following significant reduction in teacher-assigned grades, with even native German language speakers being graded H3 instead of school-assessed H1. The school and 9 pupils pursued High Court actions over this.^[7]