Crescent College

Crescent College Comprehensive SJ, formerly known as the College of the Sacred Heart, is a Catholic secondary school located on of parkland at Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland. The college is one of a number of Jesuit schools in Ireland. The 2016 Sunday Times table, of the top performing 400 schools in Ireland, placed Crescent College 24th in terms of provision of graduates to university and tertiary colleges, and ranked Crescent as the 5th best school in Munster. According to the Irish Independent, Crescent has educated executives from two of the top three companies in Ireland: Google's John Herlihy and Microsoft's Paul Rellis. Administration The school operates under the trusteeship of the Society of Jesus and the Minister for Education, with the Jesuit Provincial appointing a majority on the Board of Management and the chair of the board is someone appointed by him. The ethos is Jesuit and Catholic though most of the current teaching staff are lay-persons, and a number of Jesuit priests live on campus at the residence, Della Strada, which hosts the Jesuit Refugee Service. In 2001 the school appointed its first lay headmaster. Campus Crescent now sits on 40 acres of grounds and gardens landscaped by Fr William Troddyn and the late school gardener, P.J. Brennan, who together 'purloined' clippings and bulbs from the Limerick region in order to use on the grounds of Crescent, including an avenue of copper beeches. The school also maintains a nature garden to attract wildlife to the campus.