Photo: Robert Ashby · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Carrigtwohill, only 0% of schools are in DEIS, fewer than around Co. Cork’s towns or Irish towns
Measured that way, Carrigtwohill is below both Co. Cork’s towns (40%) and Irish towns (35%). None of its 6 schools is in DEIS, the extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas (30% of schools across Ireland are). These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
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 Carrigtwohill’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
12 post-primary schools lie within 10 km, so families here have a real choice at twelve; each admits on its own policy. The nearest: Carrigtwohill Post Primary (0.2 km), St Aloysius College (0.3 km) and Christian Brothers Secondary School (6.2 km). Post-primary choices ↓
No school in DEIS
None of the schools here is in DEIS, the extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. Who runs them ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Pupil numbers around Carrigtwohill
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 Carrigtwohill had 1,715 pupils in 2015/16 and 2,782 in 2025/26. Carrigtwohill Post Primary grew most: +237% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Carrigtwohill
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 Carrigtwohill’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
4 of Carrigtwohill’s 6 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Cork ETB (3), Bishop of Cloyne (2) and Le Chéile Schools Trust (1). None of the 6 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.
Where the 6 schools in and around Carrigtwohill 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 Carrigtwohill’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 Carrigtwohill
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 6 schools in and around Carrigtwohill teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Carrigtwohill’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Cork’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 Carrigtwohill | Co. Cork | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 8% | 6% |
| Girls | 60% | 49% | 49% |
| Post-primary pupils at single-sex schools | 46% | 33% | 29% |
| Post-primary pupils at fee-paying schools | 0% | 7% | 6% |
Fewer of the pupils around Carrigtwohill are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 0% against 27% (Co. Cork: 18%). The biggest difference from Ireland is in post-primary pupils at single-sex schools: 46% here, 29% there.
Each of the 6 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Aloysius CollegePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 765 | 100% | ||
| Scoil Chlochair Mhuire National SchoolPrimary | 245 | 64% | ||
| Carrigtwohill Post PrimaryPost-primary · ETB | 912 | 42% | ||
| Scoil Mhuire NaofaPrimary | 396 | 39% | ||
| Carrigtwohill Community National SchoolPrimary | 443 | 47% | ||
| East Cork Community Special SchoolSpecial | 21 | 38% |
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 3 patrons of Carrigtwohill’s schools
Patrons own the schools and set their ethos; boards of management run them day to day.
3 patrons run the 6 schools around Carrigtwohill; the largest, Cork ETB, has 3 of them and 49% of the pupils. Education and Training Boards run 3 of them.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cork ETBCarrigtwohill Post Primary, Carrigtwohill Community, East Cork Community Special School | Catholic, Multi-denominational | 3 | 1,376 |
| Bishop of CloyneScoil Mhuire Naofa, Scoil Chlochair Mhuire | Catholic | 2 | 641 |
| Le Chéile Schools TrustSt Aloysius College | Catholic | 1 | 765 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Carrigtwohill
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, 2 of the 5 grew by 5% or more and 2 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 6 schools in and around Carrigtwohill
Every school in Carrigtwohill or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Letters and results are missing here for a reason: Ireland publishes neither school by school.
Inspection reports for Carrigtwohill’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 6 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| St Aloysius CollegePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil Chlochair Mhuire National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Carrigtwohill Post PrimaryPost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil Mhuire NaofaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Carrigtwohill Community National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| East Cork Community Special SchoolSpecial | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Carrigtwohill
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
12 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Carrigtwohill: 7 voluntary secondary schools, 4 ETB schools and one community school. 4 teach girls and boys apart: 2 girls’ and 2 boys’ schools. One of them charges fees. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrigtwohill Post PrimaryETB · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 912 | 0.2 km |
| St Aloysius CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 765 | 0.3 km |
| Christian Brothers Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 957 | 6.2 km |
| Midleton CollegeVoluntary secondary · Church of Ireland | Girls and boys | Fee-paying, Boarding | 498 | 6.3 km |
| St Mary's High SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 762 | 6.3 km |
| St Colman's Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 1,171 | 6.4 km |
| Carrignafoy Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 322 | 6.6 km |
| Coláiste MuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 709 | 6.8 km |
| St Peter's Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 354 | 7.5 km |
| Glanmire Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,141 | 8.7 km |
| St Francis Capuchin CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 730 | 9.3 km |
| Colaiste An PhiarsaighVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste, Boarding | 578 | 9.5 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Carrigtwohill
East Cork Community Special School is the special school here, with 21 pupils. 3 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.
Carrigtwohill beside the 96 other Irish towns of 3,900 to 7,500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walkinstown | 7,442 | 91 | 27,293 | 3 | 51% | 0.2 km |
| … | ||||||
| Carrickmacross | 5,745 | 6 | 2,352 | 1 | 17% | 0.2 km |
| Portobello | 5,732 | 110 | 29,104 | 7 | 46% | 0.4 km |
| Blessington | 5,611 | 6 | 1,711 | 1 | 0% | 0.2 km |
| Knocknaheeny | 5,592 | 59 | 18,265 | 5 | 59% | 0.5 km |
| Carrigtwohill | 5,568 | 6 | 2,782 | 0 | 0% | 0.2 km |
| Inishkenny | 5,552 | 43 | 16,164 | 4 | 35% | 1.4 km |
| Roscrea | 5,542 | 8 | 1,763 | 0 | 50% | 0.5 km |
| Ardee | 5,478 | 5 | 2,252 | 0 | 60% | 0.8 km |
| Edmondstown | 5,451 | 57 | 23,063 | 6 | 12% | 1.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Castleblayney | 3,926 | 9 | 2,076 | 1 | 44% | 0.5 km |
Of the other 96 towns, 67 have more pupils at the schools around them than Carrigtwohill. Within 3 km, 82 of these 97 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Carrigtwohill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrigtwohill | 6 | 2,782 | 0 | 0% | 0.2 km |
| Glounthaune 5.5 km | 32 | 10,210 | 4 | 19% | 3.7 km |
| Midleton 5.9 km | 10 | 5,560 | 1 | 10% | 0.3 km |
| Cobh 7.3 km | 13 | 3,613 | 1 | 23% | 0.8 km |
| Passage West-Monkstown 7.5 km | 16 | 4,438 | 0 | 6% | 0.1 km |
| Glanmire 8.7 km | 27 | 7,395 | 5 | 26% | 0.9 km |
| Aghada-Rostellan 9 km | 3 | 574 | 0 | 0% | 5.5 km |
Glanmire has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 5. Of Carrigtwohill’s neighbours, Glounthaune saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+10%) and Cobh the least (−11%); Carrigtwohill itself: +24%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Carrigtwohill 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 Carrigtwohill
How many schools are there in Carrigtwohill?
In Carrigtwohill or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 1 special school, with 2,782 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Carrigtwohill that teach through Irish?
None in Carrigtwohill or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Carrigtwohill?
No: all 2 secondary schools here are free.
What is the best school in Carrigtwohill?
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 Carrigtwohill?
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).