Photo: Simon Huguet · CC BY-SA 2.0More children at the schools around Quin: +18% since 2019/20, above Co. Clare’s towns and Irish towns
Measured that way, Quin is above both Co. Clare’s towns (+1%) and Irish towns (+4%). Its schools have 444 pupils, 18% more than in 2019/20. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
Schools in the town or within 3 km of its outline, Department of Education lists for 2025/26; the Ireland figures cover all schools listed.
What stands out about Quin’s schools
More pupils every year
Pupil numbers at the schools here have grown faster than across Ireland (+5% since 2019/20), so classes and new places are a question worth asking. Pupils over time ↓
A wide choice at twelve
Within 10 km of the town there are 5 post-primary schools to choose from, of different kinds; each sets its own admission policy, and many families apply to several. The nearest: St Flannan's College (8.1 km), Rice College (8.3 km) and Coláiste Mhuire (8.6 km). Post-primary choices ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Quin 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 Quin’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.
Pupil numbers around Quin
Pupils every September at the schools in or within 3 km of the town, each counted at today’s site.
The schools in and around Quin had 399 pupils in 2015/16 and 444 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Quin
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.
Who runs Quin’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Quin’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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Quin
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Quin teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Quin’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.
| Share of pupils | Around Quin | Co. Clare | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 48% | 50% | 49% |
0% of the pupils around Quin are at a DEIS school, fewer than the 27% across Ireland (18% in Co. Clare). Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil na Mainistreach Quin DanganPrimary | 331 | 49% | ||
| S.N. Dubh RathPrimary | 113 | 46% |
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 Quin
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, 2 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 0 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.
The 2 schools in and around Quin
Each school in or within 3 km of Quin links to a page of its own. These schools carry no letter or result: Ireland doesn’t release them school by school.
Inspection reports for Quin’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, none rated
Each school is visited by inspectors from time to time, for a whole-school evaluation of teaching, learning and leadership, for one subject, or to follow up earlier advice, and every report is posted 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 2 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Scoil na Mainistreach Quin DanganPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Dubh RathPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Quin
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
5 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Quin: 4 voluntary secondary schools and one ETB school. Of these, one teaches only girls or only boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Flannan's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 1,270 | 8.1 km |
| Rice CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 666 | 8.3 km |
| Coláiste MhuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 1,013 | 8.6 km |
| Ennis Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | Irish stream, DEIS | 614 | 8.8 km |
| St. Joseph's Secondary School TullaVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 727 | 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 Quin
No special school is in or near Quin. 2 of the 2 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.
Quin 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 |
| … | ||||||
| Durrow | 946 | 1 | 192 | 0 | 0% | 8.1 km |
| Dromahair | 939 | 1 | 152 | 0 | 0% | 9.7 km |
| Lisdoonvarna | 934 | 2 | 427 | 0 | 50% | 0.3 km |
| Glenties | 927 | 3 | 581 | 0 | 100% | 0.7 km |
| Quin | 922 | 2 | 444 | 0 | 0% | 8.1 km |
| Miltown Malbay | 921 | 5 | 716 | 0 | 40% | 2.7 km |
| Paulstown | 919 | 1 | 217 | 0 | 0% | 4.4 km |
| Mucklagh | 918 | 3 | 1,178 | 0 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| Kilmessan | 907 | 2 | 337 | 0 | 0% | 8.2 km |
| … | ||||||
| Na Dúnaibh | 601 | 2 | 202 | 1 | 100% | 14 km |
Of these 178 other towns, 73 count more pupils at their schools than Quin. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 16 of the 179.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Quin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quin | 2 | 444 | 0 | 0% | 8.1 km |
| Newmarket-On-Fergus 6.4 km | 2 | 272 | 0 | 0% | 6.4 km |
| Ennis 8.5 km | 18 | 7,595 | 1 | 33% | 0.3 km |
| Sixmilebridge 10 km | 1 | 423 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Shannon 12 km | 10 | 2,913 | 1 | 20% | 0.6 km |
Ennis has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Quin changed by +18%; among its neighbours, Shannon’s grew most (+7%) and Sixmilebridge’s least (−21%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Quin 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 Quin
How many schools are there in Quin?
In Quin or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 444 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Quin that teach through Irish?
None in Quin or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Quin?
Not in Quin or within 3 km of it; the nearest is St Flannan's College, 8.1 km away.
What is the best school in Quin?
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 Quin?
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).