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Station Road, Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork · T45 YY22 · Roll number 76333G
Carrigtwohill Post Primary is one of 2 post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Carrigtwohill. Every school in and around Carrigtwohill →
What stands out about Carrigtwohill Post Primary
- One of the larger post-primary schools: 912 pupils, against a typical 585.
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Growing: 912 pupils, 237% more than the 271 of 2019/20.
- An ETB school: run by the county’s Education and Training Board.
- Its patron is the Cork ETB; its ethos is Catholic.
- Outside Carrigtwohill’s outline, 0 km away; listed with Carrigtwohill, the nearest town in its county.
Pupils over time
2016/17 to 2025/26Carrigtwohill Post Primary had 912 pupils in 2025/26, against 43 in 2016/17 (+2,021%). Girls are 42% of them. Its roll rose in 9 of the 9 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Carrigtwohill Post Primary
Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing schools by them, so this school has no letter and nothing here ranks it. Its facts are the Department of Education’s; its inspection reports are linked below.
What the Department of Education does publish for Carrigtwohill Post Primary is on this page: its pupils each September since 2015/16, girls and boys, its patron and ethos, whether it teaches through Irish, whether it is in DEIS, and its inspection reports.
Newspapers print lists of how many of a school’s leavers go on to college. Those count destinations, not exam results, and depend on who a school takes in; we don’t use them.
Inspection reports on Carrigtwohill Post Primary
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate visits schools and publishes its reports. The reports describe what inspectors saw; they give no overall grade, and we don’t make one. Reports for this school on gov.ie ↗
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.
Getting a place at Carrigtwohill Post Primary
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Carrigtwohill Post Primary directly, usually in the year before their child finishes sixth class; the school’s yearly admission notice gives the dates for applying and for its decisions.
A school with more applicants than places admits on the criteria in its admission policy, often brothers and sisters, the area it serves and, for post-primary schools, its feeder primaries. A family refused a place can appeal.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Carrigtwohill Post Primary has grown by 237% since 2019/20. All the schools around Carrigtwohill together changed by +24%.
Pupils since 2019/20
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; Department of Education enrolments 2019/20 and 2025/26 (preliminary).
Side by side with the nearest post-primary schools
2025/26The nearest schools of the same kind, as the crow flies: their pupils, ethos and language. No results: none are published.
Of the 6 nearest post-primary schools, 2 have more pupils than Carrigtwohill Post Primary. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by +237%; 0 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrigtwohill Post Primary | 912 | +237% | Catholic | English | ||
| St Aloysius College | 765 | −1% | Catholic | English | 0.4 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 957 | +13% | Catholic | English | 6.4 km | |
| Midleton College | 498 | +15% | Church of Ireland | English | 6.4 km | |
| St Mary's High School | 762 | +6% | Catholic | English | 6.4 km | |
| St Colman's Community College | 1,171 | +51% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 6.5 km |
| Carrignafoy Community College | 322 | +0% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 6.7 km |
The other 78 post-primary schools in Co. Cork
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste Muire | 709 | +6% | Catholic | English | 6.8 km | |
| St Peter's Community School | 354 | −3% | Inter-denominational | English | 7.5 km | |
| Glanmire Community College | 1,141 | +3% | Inter-denominational | English | 8.6 km | |
| St Francis Capuchin College | 730 | −5% | Catholic | English | 9.2 km | |
| Colaiste An Phiarsaigh | 578 | +6% | Catholic | All in Irish | 9.4 km | |
| Nagle Community College | 315 | +61% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 9.9 km |
| Ursuline College Blackrock | 352 | +45% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 11 km |
| Mayfield Community School | 362 | +28% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 12 km |
| Colaiste Muire | 523 | +16% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Regina Mundi College | 564 | −0% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Douglas Community School | 605 | +19% | Inter-denominational | English | 13 km | |
| Ashton School | 539 | +2% | Church of Ireland | English | 13 km | |
| St Patricks College | 218 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 13 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin | 302 | +156% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 14 km | |
| Carrigaline Community School | 1,072 | −2% | Inter-denominational | English | 14 km | |
| Cork Educate Together Secondary School | 403 | +54% | Multi-denominational | English | 14 km | |
| St Aidan's Community College | 309 | −23% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 14 km |
| Christ King Girls' Secondary School | 700 | −10% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Coláiste Chríost Rí | 502 | −13% | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | 14 km | |
| Christian Brothers College | 919 | +1% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 432 | +2% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Coláiste Daibhéid | 151 | −28% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | ✓ | 14 km |
| Edmund Rice College | 580 | +73% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| St. Angela's College | 606 | +4% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Coláiste Éamann Rís | 811 | +149% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| St Vincent's Secondary School | 283 | +39% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Mhuire | 690 | +20% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 15 km |
| North Monastery Secondary School | 271 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| Presentation Secondary School | 190 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| St Aloysius School | 323 | +5% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Nano Nagle College | 161 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| Presentation Brothers College | 692 | −3% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Coláiste an Chroí Naofa | 461 | −15% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Terence Mac Swiney Community College | 302 | +81% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 17 km |
| Mount Mercy College | 811 | +2% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh | 715 | +1% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| Bishopstown Community School | 306 | +0% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 18 km |
| Scoil Mhuire gan Smal | 1,124 | +40% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Coláiste Choilm | 1,357 | −0% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 22 km | |
| Ballincollig Community School | 987 | +20% | Inter-denominational | English | 23 km | |
| Le Cheile Secondary School Ballincollig | 254 | – | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| Coláiste an Chraoibhín | 918 | +6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 25 km |
| Loreto Secondary School | 729 | +18% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Coláiste Cholmáin | 716 | +39% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Pobalscoil na Tríonóide | 1,086 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 27 km | |
| Kinsale Community School | 1,450 | +31% | Inter-denominational | English | 30 km | |
| Davis College | 1,033 | +26% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 35 km |
| St Mary's Secondary School | 749 | +6% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Patrician Academy | 568 | +1% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Coachford College | 848 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 36 km | |
| St. Brogan's College | 905 | +50% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 37 km |
| Coláiste na Toirbhirte | 456 | −8% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh | 399 | +1% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Bandon Grammar School | 712 | +5% | Church of Ireland | English | 39 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 410 | +27% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Coláiste Fionnchua | 449 | +63% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 39 km |
| Presentation Secondary School | 342 | +9% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Nagle Rice Secondary School | 260 | +39% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire | 589 | +34% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 46 km |
| St Mary'S Secondary School | 431 | +33% | Catholic | English | 48 km | |
| McEgan College | 289 | +60% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 48 km |
| De La Salle College | 409 | +11% | Catholic | English | 48 km | |
| Coláiste Treasa | 647 | +18% | Multi-denominational | English | 53 km | |
| Sacred Heart Secondary School | 568 | +7% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 271 | −7% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| Clonakilty Community College | 696 | +17% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 54 km | |
| Scoil na mBráithre Chríostaí | 313 | +11% | Catholic | English | 57 km | |
| St. Mary's Secondary School | 322 | +10% | Catholic | English | 57 km | |
| Millstreet Community School | 359 | +9% | Inter-denominational | English | 58 km | |
| Boherbue Comprehensive School | 551 | +70% | Inter-denominational | English | 61 km | |
| Colaiste Ghobnatan | 212 | −8% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 61 km | |
| Maria Immaculata Community College | 642 | +28% | Inter-denominational | English | 63 km | |
| Mount St Michael | 403 | +30% | Catholic | English | 64 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 109 | +11% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 67 km | |
| Skibbereen Community School | 956 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 79 km | |
| Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí | 752 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | 86 km | |
| Schull Community College | 359 | −7% | Inter-denominational | English | 99 km | |
| Beara Community School | 308 | −6% | Inter-denominational | English | 117 km |
Living in Carrigtwohill
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the T45 Eircode area
Housing in Carrigtwohill →The median sale price rose from €371,000 in 2023 to €390,000 in 2025 (+5%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the T45 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Carrigtwohill
Cost of living in Carrigtwohill →New tenancies in Carrigtwohill averaged €1,554 a month in 2025, against €1,423 in 2024 (+9%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
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near Carrigtwohill, T45 YY22
Post-primary schools near Carrigtwohill Post Primary
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Carrigtwohill Post Primary
Is Carrigtwohill Post Primary a good school?
We don’t grade it: Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them. Its inspection reports on gov.ie, a visit and a talk with the principal will tell you more than any table could.
How many pupils does Carrigtwohill Post Primary have?
912 pupils in 2025/26. That is +237% since 2019/20.
Does Carrigtwohill Post Primary teach through Irish?
No: Carrigtwohill Post Primary teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Carrigtwohill Post Primary?
Carrigtwohill Post Primary has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Cork ETB.
How do pupils get a place at Carrigtwohill Post Primary?
Apply to the school directly. It publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice with its dates; if more children apply than it has places, it admits on the criteria in its policy.
Which schools of the same kind are near Carrigtwohill Post Primary?
The nearest are St Aloysius College (0.4 km), Christian Brothers Secondary School (6.4 km) and Midleton College (6.4 km).
Sources: Department of Education, school lists 2025/26 (preliminary) and enrolments since 2015/16, CC BY 4.0 · inspection reports on gov.ie, linked by roll number. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Facts from the Department of Education’s school lists. Listed with Carrigtwohill; nothing here rates the school.
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).