Photo: The Banner · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer of the schools around Corofin are in DEIS than around Co. Clare’s towns or Irish towns: 0%
In the comparison, Corofin comes below both Co. Clare’s towns (33%) and Irish towns (35%). All 2 of its schools are Catholic: there is no other kind within 3 km. With no school results published in Ireland, and the Education Act 1998 restricting comparisons of them, these schools are described, not 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 2 schools in and around Corofin 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 Corofin’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.
Who runs Corofin’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
2 of Corofin’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Killaloe (2). None of the 2 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 schools in and around Corofin
Each school in or within 3 km of Corofin links to a page of its own. Ireland publishes no school-by-school results, which is why these cards have no letters.
Teaching through Irish in and around Corofin
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 2 schools in and around Corofin teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Corofin’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against Co. Clare’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Corofin | Co. Clare | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 42% | 50% | 49% |
Around Corofin, 0% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 18% in Co. Clare. Furthest from Ireland’s mix is the share of girls: 42% here against 49%.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil Mhuire NaisiuntaPrimary | 102 | 45% | ||
| Kilnaboy N.S.Primary | 80 | 39% |
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.
How children get a place in Corofin
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
Of these 2 schools, 0 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 1 have lost as much; Ireland’s pupils changed by +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.
Inspection reports for Corofin’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
Reports come from whole-school evaluations (teaching, learning, leadership and management), subject inspections and follow-through visits that check earlier advice; gov.ie publishes each one with the school’s response.
Reports say what inspectors found and what should improve, without an overall grade, so none appears here; each of the 2 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Scoil Mhuire NaisiuntaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Kilnaboy N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Corofin
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
No post-primary school is within 10 km of Corofin; the nearest is Ennis Community College, 12 km away.
Corofin beside the 158 other Irish towns of 600 to 1,100 people
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km, listed by population: Ireland publishes no results, so none is ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buttevant | 1,080 | 2 | 802 | 0 | 100% | 0.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ladysbridge | 809 | 1 | 214 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| Ballon | 801 | 1 | 239 | 0 | 0% | 7.5 km |
| Crinkill | 795 | 7 | 1,708 | 1 | 86% | 3.1 km |
| Doirí Beaga | 794 | 4 | 749 | 4 | 100% | 2.3 km |
| Corofin | 793 | 2 | 182 | 0 | 0% | 12 km |
| Kilmuckridge | 792 | 2 | 542 | 0 | 50% | 0.2 km |
| Roosky | 787 | 1 | 160 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Ardara | 785 | 5 | 167 | 2 | 80% | 8.6 km |
| Omeath | 778 | 2 | 136 | 0 | 50% | 11 km |
| … | ||||||
| Na Dúnaibh | 601 | 2 | 202 | 1 | 100% | 14 km |
Among the 158 other towns, 125 have more pupils at their schools than Corofin does. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 15 of the 159.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Corofin
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 Corofin had 210 pupils in 2015/16 and 182 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Corofin
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 Corofin
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corofin | 2 | 182 | 0 | 0% | 12 km |
| Ennis 13 km | 18 | 7,595 | 1 | 33% | 0.3 km |
| Ennistimon 15 km | 5 | 1,088 | 0 | 60% | 0.6 km |
| Lehinch 19 km | 5 | 1,110 | 1 | 40% | 2.8 km |
Ennis has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Of Corofin’s neighbours, Ennistimon saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+89%) and Ennis the least (+1%); Corofin itself: −8%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Corofin 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 Corofin
How many schools are there in Corofin?
In Corofin or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 182 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Corofin that teach through Irish?
None in Corofin or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Corofin?
Not in Corofin or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Ennis Community College, 12 km away.
What is the best school in Corofin?
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 Corofin?
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).