Photo: John Salter · CC BY-SA 2.0Few schools around Charleville teach through Irish: 0%, below Co. Cork’s towns and Irish towns
For Charleville, that is below both Co. Cork’s towns (9%) and Irish towns (8%). DEIS, the extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas, reaches 3 of its 6 schools; across Ireland, 30%. With no school results published in Ireland, and the Education Act 1998 restricting comparisons of them, these schools are described, not 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 Charleville’s schools
Single-sex secondary schools
Every secondary school here takes only boys or only girls, so a family with a son and a daughter will use two schools. Single-sex: St. Mary's Secondary School (322) and Scoil na mBráithre Chríostaí (313). Every school ↓
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: Scoil na mBraithre Boys Snr Sch (227), Scoil Naomh Aine Girls Senior School (195) and St Josephs Convent N.S. (190). Who runs them ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
The 6 schools in and around Charleville
Each school in or within 3 km of Charleville links to a page of its own. No letters and no results: Ireland publishes none school by school.
Who runs Charleville’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
6 of Charleville’s 6 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Cloyne (3), CEIST (1) and Edmund Rice Schools Trust (1). 3 of the 6 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.
Where the 6 schools in and around Charleville 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 Charleville’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 Charleville
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 6 schools in and around Charleville teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Charleville’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against 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 Charleville | Co. Cork | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 46% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 8% | 6% |
| Girls | 48% | 49% | 49% |
| Post-primary pupils at single-sex schools | 100% | 33% | 29% |
| Post-primary pupils at fee-paying schools | 0% | 7% | 6% |
46% of the pupils around Charleville are at a DEIS school, more than the 27% across Ireland (18% in Co. Cork). The biggest difference from Ireland is in post-primary pupils at single-sex schools: 100% here, 29% there. Of the DEIS schools here, Scoil na mBraithre Boys Snr Sch is the biggest: 227 pupils.
Each of the 6 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Mary's Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 322 | 100% | ||
| Scoil na mBráithre ChríostaíPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 313 | 0% | ||
| Scoil na mBraithre Boys Snr SchPrimary | 227 | 1% | ✓ | |
| Scoil Naomh Aine Girls Senior SchoolPrimary | 195 | 100% | ✓ | |
| St Josephs Convent N.S.Primary | 190 | 47% | ✓ | |
| Holy Family S SSpecial | 87 | 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 4 patrons of Charleville’s schools
Patrons own the schools and set their ethos; boards of management run them day to day.
The schools around Charleville answer to 4 patrons, and Bishop of Cloyne leads with 3 of the 6 schools and 46% of their pupils.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of CloyneScoil na mBraithre Boys Snr Sch, Scoil Naomh Aine Girls Senior School, St Josephs Convent | Catholic | 3 | 612 |
| CEISTSt. Mary's | Catholic | 1 | 322 |
| Edmund Rice Schools TrustScoil na mBráithre Chríostaí | Catholic | 1 | 313 |
| St Joseph's FoundationHoly Family S S | Catholic | 1 | 87 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Charleville
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 5 schools, 4 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 Charleville’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, 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 6 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| St. Mary's Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil na mBráithre ChríostaíPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil na mBraithre Boys Snr SchPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil Naomh Aine Girls Senior SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Josephs Convent N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Holy Family S SSpecial | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Charleville
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
Within 10 km of Charleville there are 3 post-primary schools: 2 voluntary secondary schools and one ETB school. 2 of them are single-sex, 1 for girls and 1 for boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Mary's Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 322 | 0.3 km |
| Scoil na mBráithre ChríostaíVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 313 | 0.3 km |
| Coláiste IósaefETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 505 | 9.1 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Charleville
Holy Family S S is the special school here, with 87 pupils. 1 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.
Charleville beside the 92 other Irish towns of 2,800 to 5,400 people
Schools in or within 3 km of each town, by population; none is ranked, as Ireland publishes no results
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tipperary | 5,387 | 8 | 2,079 | 1 | 75% | 0.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Rathbane | 4,111 | 52 | 19,628 | 7 | 33% | 1.5 km |
| Grange | 4,109 | 32 | 12,776 | 3 | 41% | 1.3 km |
| Macroom | 4,096 | 6 | 1,897 | 0 | 17% | 0.1 km |
| Newcastle | 4,032 | 31 | 11,321 | 5 | 29% | 0.9 km |
| Charleville | 3,970 | 6 | 1,334 | 0 | 50% | 0.3 km |
| Castleblayney | 3,926 | 9 | 2,076 | 1 | 44% | 0.5 km |
| Claremorris | 3,857 | 3 | 1,120 | 0 | 0% | 0.7 km |
| Farranree | 3,824 | 57 | 16,957 | 5 | 56% | 0.4 km |
| Kill | 3,818 | 2 | 774 | 0 | 0% | 5.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Kanturk | 2,803 | 3 | 1,290 | 0 | 0% | 0.4 km |
Among the 92 other towns, 77 have more pupils at their schools than Charleville does. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 61 of the 93.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Charleville
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 Charleville had 1,320 pupils in 2015/16 and 1,334 in 2025/26. Scoil Naomh Aine Girls Senior School grew most: +16% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Charleville
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 Charleville
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charleville | 6 | 1,334 | 0 | 50% | 0.3 km |
| Kilmallock 9 km | 2 | 786 | 0 | 100% | 0.3 km |
| Buttevant 14 km | 2 | 802 | 0 | 100% | 0.6 km |
| Croom 19 km | 2 | 990 | 0 | 100% | 1 km |
The roll around Charleville moved +7% since 2019/20; nearby, Buttevant grew most (+25%) and Kilmallock least (+13%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Charleville 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 Charleville
How many schools are there in Charleville?
In Charleville or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 1 special school, with 1,334 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Charleville that teach through Irish?
None in Charleville 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 Charleville?
No: all 2 secondary schools here are free.
What is the best school in Charleville?
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 Charleville?
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).