Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Parteen, 60% of the post-primary schools take only girls or only boys, above Co. Clare’s towns and Irish towns
Set beside other towns, Parteen comes out above both Co. Clare’s towns (13%) and Irish towns (39%). 3 of its 5 secondary schools take only boys or only girls. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
Counted from the Department of Education’s 2025/26 lists: every school in the town or within 3 km of it, against every school in Ireland.
What stands out about Parteen’s schools
Extra support for many schools
Many schools here are in DEIS, which gives schools in disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and help; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. In DEIS: Thomond Community College (597), Ardscoil Mhuire (591), Corpus Christi N.S. (403) and Scoil Chriost Ri B (278), and 8 more. Who runs them ↓
Mostly single-sex at secondary
Most secondary schools here take only boys or only girls; the mixed ones are marked on the cards below. Single-sex: Ardscoil Ris (728), St Munchin's College (682) and Ardscoil Mhuire (591). Every school ↓
A wide choice at twelve
15 post-primary schools lie within 10 km, so families here have a real choice at twelve; each admits on its own policy. The nearest: St Munchin's College (1.6 km), Ardscoil Mhuire (3 km) and Thomond Community College (3.1 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Who runs Parteen’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
19 of Parteen’s 21 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Limerick (17), Limerick & Clare ETB (2) and CEIST (1). 12 of the 21 are 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 21 schools in and around Parteen
Each school in or within 3 km of Parteen links to a page of its own. Results by school aren’t published in Ireland, so the cards carry none.
Where the 21 schools in and around Parteen 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 Parteen’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 Parteen
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
2 of Parteen’s 21 schools teach every subject through Irish: Gaelscoil Sairseal and Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh.
Who Parteen’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Clare’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
DEIS by stage: pupils at DEIS schools
| Share of pupils | Around Parteen | Co. Clare | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 43% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 13% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 46% | 50% | 49% |
| Post-primary pupils at single-sex schools | 62% | 11% | 29% |
| Post-primary pupils at fee-paying schools | 0% | 0% | 6% |
DEIS schools teach 43% of the pupils around Parteen, a larger share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Clare: 18%). Set beside Ireland, post-primary pupils at single-sex schools stand out most: 62% against 29%. The largest DEIS school here is Thomond Community College, with 597 pupils.
Each of the 21 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. an Phairtin MixedPrimary | 317 | 51% | ||
| St Munchin's CollegePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 682 | 0% | ||
| Corpus Christi N.S.Primary | 403 | 50% | ✓ | |
| Scoil IdePrimary | 654 | 48% | ||
| Thomond Primary SchoolPrimary | 215 | 49% | ✓ | |
| Thomond Community CollegePost-primary · ETB | 597 | 52% | ✓ | |
| Gaelscoil SairsealPrimary | 369 | 55% | ✓ | |
| Ardscoil MhuirePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 591 | 100% | ✓ | |
| St Mary's National SchoolPrimary | 152 | 47% | ✓ | |
| Scoil Chriost Ri BPrimary | 278 | 0% | ✓ | |
| S N Muire na hEireannPrimary | 262 | 100% | ✓ | |
| Gaelcholáiste LuimnighPost-primary · ETB | 606 | 61% | ✓ | |
| J F K Memorial SchoolPrimary | 218 | 0% | ||
| Scoil Padraig Naofa CPrimary | 197 | 100% | ✓ | |
| Ardscoil RisPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 728 | 0% | ||
| S.N. Mhuire MiliucPrimary | 84 | 56% | ✓ | |
| Salesian Primary SchoolPrimary | 361 | 72% | ||
| Scoil Padraig Naofa BPrimary | 197 | 0% | ✓ | |
| St John the Baptist Boys N.S.Primary | 69 | 0% | ✓ | |
| Milford Grange N SchoolPrimary | 479 | 49% | ||
| St Johns ConventPrimary | 223 | 75% | ✓ |
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.
The 4 patrons of Parteen’s schools
Patrons own the schools and set their ethos; boards of management run them day to day.
The schools around Parteen answer to 4 patrons, and Bishop of Limerick leads with 17 of the 21 schools and 67% of their pupils. 2 are ETB schools.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of LimerickSt Munchin's College, Scoil Ide, Milford Grange N School, Corpus Christi, Gaelscoil Sairseal, Salesian Primary School, S.N. an Phairtin Mixed, Scoil Chriost Ri B, S N Muire na hEireann, St Johns Convent, J F K Memorial School, Thomond Primary School, Scoil Padraig Naofa C, Scoil Padraig Naofa B, St Mary's, S.N. Mhuire Miliuc, St John the Baptist Boys | Catholic | 17 | 5,160 |
| Limerick & Clare ETBGaelcholáiste Luimnigh, Thomond | Inter-denominational, Multi-denominational | 2 | 1,203 |
| Edmund Rice Schools TrustArdscoil Ris | Catholic | 1 | 728 |
| CEISTArdscoil Mhuire | Catholic | 1 | 591 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Parteen
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
5 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 11 have shrunk by as much, out of 21; across Ireland: +5%.
All 21 schools
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 Parteen’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
Inspectors visit every kind of school. Whole-school evaluations look at teaching and learning, leadership and management; subject inspections look at one subject; follow-through inspections check whether earlier advice was taken. Each report is published on gov.ie with the school’s response.
The reports describe what inspectors saw and what each school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the 21 schools below each link their own.
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Parteen
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
Families in Parteen have 15 post-primary schools within 10 km: 10 voluntary secondary schools, 4 ETB schools and one comprehensive school. 7 of them are single-sex, 3 for girls and 4 for boys. One of them charges fees. Every subject is taught through Irish at 2 of them.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Munchin's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 682 | 1.6 km |
| Ardscoil MhuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | DEIS | 591 | 3 km |
| Thomond Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 597 | 3.1 km |
| Gaelcholáiste LuimnighETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 606 | 3.4 km |
| Ardscoil RisVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 728 | 3.9 km |
| Coláiste Nano NagleVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | DEIS | 365 | 4.1 km |
| Colaiste MhichilVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | DEIS | 349 | 4.2 km |
| St Clements CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | DEIS | 411 | 4.8 km |
| Villiers Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Church of Ireland | Girls and boys | Fee-paying, Boarding | 508 | 4.8 km |
| Laurel Hill Coláiste FCJVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | Gaelcholáiste | 315 | 4.9 km |
| Laurel Hill Secondary School FCJVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 746 | 4.9 km |
| Limerick City East Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 811 | 5.5 km |
All 15 post-primary schools within reach
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castletroy CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,360 | 6.2 km |
| Crescent College ComprehensiveComprehensive · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 922 | 6.9 km |
| Mungret Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 991 | 8.8 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Parteen
No special school is in or near Parteen. 9 of the 16 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.
Parteen beside the 178 other Irish towns of 600 to 1,200 people
Towns of a similar size, with the schools in or within 3 km of each; ordered by population, never ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urlingford | 1,196 | 2 | 882 | 0 | 100% | 3.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Clarinbridge | 905 | 2 | 451 | 0 | 0% | 5.5 km |
| Cratloe | 899 | 1 | 278 | 0 | 0% | 6.6 km |
| Killeagh | 895 | 1 | 203 | 0 | 0% | 8.5 km |
| Kilmacthomas | 891 | 4 | 1,073 | 0 | 25% | 0.5 km |
| Parteen | 889 | 21 | 7,682 | 2 | 57% | 1.6 km |
| Kilmacrennan | 888 | 1 | 231 | 0 | 0% | 7.7 km |
| Bruff | 887 | 1 | 219 | 0 | 0% | 7.3 km |
| Rosses Point | 883 | 2 | 210 | 0 | 0% | 5.6 km |
| Na Forbacha | 868 | 2 | 450 | 2 | 0% | 6.3 km |
| … | ||||||
| Na Dúnaibh | 601 | 2 | 202 | 1 | 100% | 14 km |
Among the 178 other towns, 1 have more pupils at their schools than Parteen does. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 16 of the 179.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Parteen
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 Parteen had 6,948 pupils in 2015/16 and 7,682 in 2025/26. St John the Baptist Boys N.S. grew most: +116% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Parteen
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 Parteen
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parteen | 21 | 7,682 | 2 | 57% | 1.6 km |
| Ardnacrusha 1.5 km | 5 | 2,332 | 0 | 20% | 3.1 km |
| Westbury 1.9 km | 29 | 9,896 | 3 | 55% | 0.9 km |
| Ballynanty 2.8 km | 39 | 12,623 | 4 | 51% | 0.3 km |
| Corbally and King's Island 2.8 km | 45 | 15,801 | 6 | 49% | 0.2 km |
| Farranshone 3.6 km | 49 | 16,369 | 6 | 47% | 0.4 km |
| Limerick City Centre 3.9 km | 43 | 14,494 | 5 | 51% | 0.4 km |
Corbally and King's Island has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 6. The roll around Parteen moved −2% since 2019/20; nearby, Westbury grew most (+8%) and Ardnacrusha least (−3%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Parteen 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 Parteen
How many schools are there in Parteen?
In Parteen or within 3 km of it: 16 primary schools and 5 secondary schools, with 7,682 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Parteen that teach through Irish?
Yes, 2: Gaelscoil Sairseal and Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh teach every subject through Irish.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Parteen?
No: all 5 secondary schools here are free.
What is the best school in Parteen?
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 Parteen?
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).