Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0DEIS support is less common around Midleton: 10% of schools, below Co. Cork’s towns and Irish towns
In the comparison, Midleton comes below both Co. Cork’s towns (40%) and Irish towns (35%). Families in Midleton have 6 primary schools and 4 secondary schools within 3 km, teaching 5,560 pupils. Nothing here grades or ranks these schools: Ireland publishes no results school by school, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
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 Midleton’s schools
One fee-paying secondary school
One secondary school within reach charges fees; the others are free. The fee-paying one: Midleton College (498). Every school ↓
One school growing fast
The fastest-growing school here is St Colman's Community College: 775 pupils in 2019/20, 1,171 now. Getting a place ↓
Few schools in DEIS
DEIS, which gives schools in disadvantaged areas more teachers and money, includes just 1 of the 10 schools here, against 30% of schools across Ireland. The one in DEIS: St Colman's Community College (1,171). Who goes there ↓
A wide choice at twelve
Within 10 km of the town there are 6 post-primary schools to choose from, of different kinds; each sets its own admission policy, and many families apply to several. The nearest: Midleton College (0.3 km), St Colman's Community College (0.7 km) and St Mary's High School (0.8 km). Post-primary choices ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
The 10 schools in and around Midleton
Each school in or within 3 km of Midleton links to a page of its own. These schools carry no letter or result: Ireland doesn’t release them school by school.
Where the 10 schools in and around Midleton 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 Midleton’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 Midleton
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
1 of Midleton’s 10 schools teach every subject through Irish: Gaelscoil Mhainistir na Corann.
Who Midleton’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, 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 Midleton | Co. Cork | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 21% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 10% | 8% | 6% |
| Girls | 46% | 49% | 49% |
| Post-primary pupils at single-sex schools | 51% | 33% | 29% |
| Post-primary pupils at fee-paying schools | 15% | 7% | 6% |
Fewer of the pupils around Midleton are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 21% against 27% (Co. Cork: 18%). Furthest from Ireland’s mix is the share of post-primary pupils at single-sex schools: 51% here against 29%. The biggest school in DEIS is St Colman's Community College (1,171 pupils).
Each of the 10 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Colman's Community CollegePost-primary · ETB | 1,171 | 43% | ✓ | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 957 | 0% | ||
| St Mary's High SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 762 | 100% | ||
| Midleton Educate Together SchoolPrimary | 572 | 52% | ||
| Gaelscoil Mhainistir na CorannPrimary | 550 | 48% | ✓ | |
| Midleton CollegePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 498 | 45% | ||
| Midleton Convent N.S.Primary | 291 | 83% | ||
| Midleton CBS Primary SchoolPrimary | 191 | 0% | ||
| St John the Baptist N.S.Primary | 190 | 48% | ||
| S N na Scairte LeithePrimary | 378 | 49% |
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.
Who runs Midleton’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
6 of Midleton’s 10 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Cloyne (4), Cork ETB (1) and Edmund Rice Schools Trust (1). 1 of the 10 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 7 patrons of Midleton’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
The schools around Midleton answer to 7 patrons, and Bishop of Cloyne leads with 4 of the 10 schools and 25% of their pupils. One is an ETB school. Educate Together runs one.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of CloyneGaelscoil Mhainistir na Corann, S N na Scairte Leithe, Midleton Convent, Midleton CBS Primary School | Catholic | 4 | 1,410 |
| Cork ETBSt Colman's | Multi-denominational | 1 | 1,171 |
| Edmund Rice Schools TrustChristian Brothers | Catholic | 1 | 957 |
| CEISTSt Mary's High School | Catholic | 1 | 762 |
| Educate TogetherMidleton Educate Together School | Multi-denominational | 1 | 572 |
| Board of Governors of Midleton CollegeMidleton College | Church of Ireland | 1 | 498 |
| Bishop of Cork, Cloyne & Ross COISt John the Baptist | Church of Ireland | 1 | 190 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Midleton
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. The fee-paying school here sets its own fees and admissions.
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; each school’s admission policy and notice are on its own website.
Which schools are growing
Since 2019/20, 5 of these 10 schools have grown by 5% or more and 4 have shrunk as much; across Ireland the number of 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 Midleton’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 10 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| St Colman's Community CollegePost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Christian Brothers Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Mary's High SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Midleton Educate Together SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Gaelscoil Mhainistir na CorannPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Midleton CollegePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Midleton Convent N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Midleton CBS Primary SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St John the Baptist N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S N na Scairte LeithePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Midleton
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
6 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Midleton: 4 voluntary secondary schools and 2 ETB schools. 3 of them are single-sex, 2 for girls and 1 for boys. One of them charges fees. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midleton CollegeVoluntary secondary · Church of Ireland | Girls and boys | Fee-paying, Boarding | 498 | 0.3 km |
| St Colman's Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 1,171 | 0.7 km |
| St Mary's High SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 762 | 0.8 km |
| Christian Brothers Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 957 | 0.9 km |
| St Aloysius CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 765 | 5.9 km |
| Carrigtwohill Post PrimaryETB · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 912 | 6.1 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Midleton
No special school is in or near Midleton. 5 of the 6 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.
Midleton beside the 88 other Irish towns of 9,700 to 18,800 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolphins Barn | 18,799 | 135 | 32,910 | 9 | 56% | 0.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Killarney | 14,412 | 12 | 4,102 | 1 | 8% | 0.8 km |
| Corbally and King's Island | 14,213 | 45 | 15,801 | 6 | 49% | 0.2 km |
| Cobh | 14,148 | 13 | 3,613 | 1 | 23% | 0.8 km |
| Clonskeagh | 14,142 | 106 | 39,846 | 10 | 10% | 0.3 km |
| Midleton | 13,906 | 10 | 5,560 | 1 | 10% | 0.3 km |
| Cabra East | 13,895 | 157 | 40,651 | 10 | 63% | 0.9 km |
| Mahon | 13,892 | 63 | 18,590 | 8 | 30% | 0.4 km |
| Knocklyon | 13,854 | 75 | 27,868 | 6 | 23% | 0.3 km |
| Deansrath | 13,743 | 64 | 26,713 | 6 | 34% | 0.3 km |
| … | ||||||
| Killiney | 9,776 | 45 | 13,019 | 1 | 31% | 0.7 km |
Among the 88 other towns, 66 have more pupils at their schools than Midleton does. Every one of them has an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Midleton
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 Midleton had 4,976 pupils in 2015/16 and 5,560 in 2025/26. St Colman's Community College grew most: +51% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Midleton
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 Midleton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midleton | 10 | 5,560 | 1 | 10% | 0.3 km |
| Carrigtwohill 5.9 km | 6 | 2,782 | 0 | 0% | 0.2 km |
| Cloyne 6.7 km | 2 | 653 | 0 | 0% | 5.8 km |
| Castlemartyr 8.4 km | 2 | 314 | 0 | 0% | 8 km |
| Aghada-Rostellan 9 km | 3 | 574 | 0 | 0% | 5.5 km |
| Whitegate 10 km | 2 | 391 | 0 | 0% | 5.2 km |
| Cobh 11 km | 13 | 3,613 | 1 | 23% | 0.8 km |
Pupils around Midleton: +6% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Carrigtwohill led (+24%) and Castlemartyr trailed (−18%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Midleton 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 Midleton
How many schools are there in Midleton?
In Midleton or within 3 km of it: 6 primary schools and 4 secondary schools, with 5,560 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Midleton that teach through Irish?
Yes, 1: Gaelscoil Mhainistir na Corann teach every subject through Irish.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Midleton?
1 of the 4: Midleton College. The others are free.
What is the best school in Midleton?
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 Midleton?
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).