Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0DEIS support is less common around Kildavin: 0% of schools, below Co. Carlow’s towns and Irish towns
Measured that way, Kildavin is below both Co. Carlow’s towns (50%) and Irish towns (35%). 318 pupils go to the 3 primary schools in or within 3 km of Kildavin. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
Every school in the town or within 3 km of its outline, from the Department of Education’s lists for 2025/26; Ireland’s figures are every school in the lists.
Where the 3 schools in and around Kildavin are
Each school where the official list places it, shaded by who runs it and sized by pupils; squares are secondary schools, triangles special schools. The dashed shape is Kildavin’s outline; schools within 3 km of it count.
Places from the Department of Education’s school lists (its own coordinates for all but a handful); map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Teaching through Irish in and around Kildavin
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 3 schools in and around Kildavin teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Kildavin’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Carlow’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Kildavin | Co. Carlow | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 37% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 6% | 6% |
| Girls | 49% | 49% | 49% |
DEIS schools teach 0% of the pupils around Kildavin, a smaller share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Carlow: 37%). Furthest from Ireland’s mix is the share of pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here against 6%.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Cill DamhainPrimary | 87 | 47% | ||
| S N Cluain na nGallPrimary | 146 | 48% | ||
| Carrigduff Nat SchoolPrimary | 85 | 52% |
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary): enrolments by sex and the DEIS list. Shares are of pupils, not of schools; a county’s are the schools listed with its towns.
Who runs Kildavin’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
2 of Kildavin’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin (2) and Bishop of Cashel, Ferns & Ossory COI (1). None of the 3 is in DEIS, the extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas (30% across Ireland).
Department of Education school lists: ethos 2025/26, patron 2024/25 (the 2025/26 lists don’t give it). DEIS list 2025/26.
The 2 patrons of Kildavin’s schools
Patrons own the schools and set their ethos; boards of management run them day to day.
The schools around Kildavin answer to 2 patrons, and Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin leads with 2 of the 3 schools and 73% of their pupils.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of Kildare & LeighlinS N Cluain na nGall, S.N. Cill Damhain | Catholic | 2 | 233 |
| Bishop of Cashel, Ferns & Ossory COICarrigduff Nat School | Church of Ireland | 1 | 85 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Kildavin
Starting primary school
Children can start primary school once they are four, and must be in school by six. Families apply to each school directly. Every school publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice; a school with more applicants than places admits on the criteria in its policy. Since the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, a Catholic or other majority-faith primary school can’t put baptised children first; a school of a minority faith still can, to keep its ethos.
Moving to secondary school
Children move to post-primary school at about twelve, after sixth class. Again, families apply to each school, usually a year or more ahead, and an oversubscribed school admits on its published criteria, often brothers and sisters and its feeder primary schools.
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; each school’s admission policy and notice are on its own website.
Which schools are growing
Between 2019/20 and now, 1 of the 3 grew by 5% or more and 1 shrank as much, while Ireland’s pupil numbers moved +5%.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September, 2019/20 and 2025/26 (preliminary). No capacity is published, so how full a school is can’t be shown.
The 3 schools in and around Kildavin
Here are the schools in Kildavin or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. Ireland publishes no school-by-school results, which is why these cards have no letters.
Inspection reports for Kildavin’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
The Inspectorate inspects schools in several ways: a whole-school evaluation covers teaching, learning and how the school is led; a subject inspection looks at one subject; a follow-through checks on earlier advice. Reports go on gov.ie with the school’s reply.
Reports say what inspectors found and what should improve, without an overall grade, so none appears here; each of the 3 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. Cill DamhainPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S N Cluain na nGallPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Carrigduff Nat SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Kildavin
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Within 10 km of Kildavin there are 2 post-primary schools: one voluntary secondary school and one ETB school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F.C.J. Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 1,075 | 4.1 km |
| Bunclody Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 310 | 4.2 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Kildavin
No special school is in or near Kildavin. 1 of the 3 primary schools have special classes for children who need more support. Their cards ↑
Special schools and primary schools with special classes as the Department lists them; the National Council for Special Education places pupils in special classes.
Kildavin beside the 128 other Irish towns of 200 to 300 people
Schools in or within 3 km of each town, by population; none is ranked, as Ireland publishes no results
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Glengarriff | 211 | 2 | 94 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Milltown | 211 | 1 | 99 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Mullinavat | 210 | 1 | 175 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
| Mountshannon | 209 | 1 | 71 | 0 | 0% | 8 km |
| Kildavin | 207 | 3 | 318 | 0 | 0% | 4.1 km |
| Cromane | 206 | 1 | 119 | 0 | 100% | 7.2 km |
| Annayalla | 205 | 1 | 195 | 0 | 0% | 5.3 km |
| Toornafulla | 204 | 1 | 115 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
| Bonniconlon | 204 | 1 | 133 | 0 | 100% | 7.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
Among the 128 other towns, 18 have more pupils at their schools than Kildavin does. Within 3 km, 7 of these 129 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Kildavin
Each September’s pupils at every school in or within 3 km of the town, counted where the school stands today.
The schools in and around Kildavin had 310 pupils in 2015/16 and 318 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Kildavin
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year, 2015/16 to 2025/26 (preliminary), for every school placed in the area today; schools that have since closed or merged count where they stood.
Schools in the towns around Kildavin
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kildavin | 3 | 318 | 0 | 0% | 4.1 km |
| Bunclody 4.3 km | 5 | 1,912 | 0 | 40% | 0.5 km |
| Carnew 13 km | 4 | 1,150 | 0 | 50% | 0.3 km |
| Tullow 14 km | 4 | 1,339 | 0 | 75% | 0.5 km |
| Ferns 16 km | 2 | 324 | 0 | 50% | 10 km |
| Muinebeag (Bagenalstown) 19 km | 6 | 1,570 | 0 | 50% | 0.5 km |
Since 2019/20 the pupils around Kildavin changed by −0%; among its neighbours, Bunclody’s grew most (+16%) and Carnew’s least (−5%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Kildavin or within 3 km of its outline, as the Department places it: families here use them. Schools further out are on the map of each school’s own page.
- The kinds of school. Primary schools take children from junior infants to sixth class, about ages 4 to 12. Post-primary schools teach the Junior and Leaving Certificate, about ages 12 to 18: voluntary secondary schools (mostly with a religious patron), ETB schools and community colleges run by an Education and Training Board, and community and comprehensive schools. Special schools teach children with particular needs.
- Teaching through Irish. All-Irish: every subject taught through Irish, in the Gaeltacht or, outside it, a Gaelscoil or Gaelcholáiste. Partly in Irish: an Irish stream (some classes entirely through Irish) or some subjects through Irish. Every other school teaches Irish as a subject.
- DEIS. DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) gives schools serving disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and support; the Department decides which schools are in it.
- Ethos and patron. Most Irish schools are owned by a patron, mostly a church; the patron sets the school’s ethos. Multi-denominational schools (Educate Together, many ETB schools) teach children of every faith and none together.
- No grade. Section 53 of the Education Act 1998 lets the Minister refuse to release information that would allow schools’ exam results to be compared, and no results are published school by school. So Ireland’s schools have no letters and its towns no School Grade; nothing on this page ranks them.
- What isn’t here. What the UK and French pages show from results, these can’t: results charts, results against pupils’ backgrounds and towns ranked by their schools (no published results), and how full each school is (no capacity is published). Every post-primary school teaches to the Leaving Certificate, so there is no sixth-form split to show.
- Inspections. The Inspectorate’s reports are linked from each school’s page. They give no overall grade, so none is shown.
- The year. The 2025/26 lists are the Department’s preliminary release; numbers can change a little in the final lists.
Questions about schools in Kildavin
How many schools are there in Kildavin?
In Kildavin or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, with 318 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Kildavin that teach through Irish?
None in Kildavin or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Kildavin?
Not in Kildavin or within 3 km of it; the nearest is F.C.J. Secondary School, 4.1 km away.
What is the best school in Kildavin?
We don’t say. Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them; a ranking would rest on guesses. Each school’s page has its own facts and a link to its inspection reports, and visiting the schools you are weighing is still the best guide.
How do I get a place at a school in Kildavin?
Apply to each school directly: every school publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice with its dates. If it has more applicants than places, it admits on the criteria in its policy.
Sources: Department of Education, school lists 2025/26 (preliminary) and enrolments since 2015/16, CC BY 4.0 · one school placed with OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).