Sancta Maria College is a girls' Catholic voluntary secondary school in Ballyroan, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland.
They decided to make it a holiday home for girls called St. Mary's Convent and it was blessed and opened on 26 July 1932.
In 1942 Archbishop McQuaid approached the Superior of the Sisters of Mary believing that the convent would be a good place to treat children in the early stages of tuberculosis.
This latter figure made Sancta Maria the school with the highest number of entrants into NCAD in the Republic of Ireland.
[citation needed] The College hosts a vibrant list of activities, both co-curricular and extracurricular, among them: The school introduced a Transition Year programme in 1991.