Photo: Hywel Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0DEIS support is less common around Riverstick: 0% of schools, below Co. Cork’s towns and Irish towns
That puts Riverstick below both Co. Cork’s towns (37%) and Irish towns (35%). Scoil Mhuire na nGrast is a primary with 363 pupils. 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.
Where the school in or near Riverstick is
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 Riverstick’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 Riverstick
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 1 schools in and around Riverstick teaches every subject through Irish.
Who runs Riverstick’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
1 of Riverstick’s 1 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Cork & Ross (1). None of the 1 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.
How children get a place in Riverstick
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.
The school in and around Riverstick
Every school in Riverstick or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Without school-level results from Ireland, the cards show no letters.
Inspection reports for Riverstick’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 the school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the school below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Scoil Mhuire na nGrastPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Riverstick
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
Within 10 km of Riverstick there are 4 post-primary schools: 2 community schools, one voluntary secondary school and one ETB school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinsale Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,450 | 7.7 km |
| Edmund Rice CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 580 | 8.9 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui LeighinETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 302 | 9 km |
| Carrigaline Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,072 | 9.2 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Riverstick
No special school is in or near Riverstick. 1 of the 1 primary schools has 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.
Riverstick beside the 187 other Irish towns of 500 to 1,000 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castletownbere | 999 | 3 | 524 | 0 | 67% | 0.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ardara | 785 | 5 | 167 | 2 | 80% | 8.6 km |
| Omeath | 778 | 2 | 136 | 0 | 50% | 11 km |
| Cappoquin | 778 | 1 | 189 | 0 | 100% | 6.6 km |
| Mountbellew | 774 | 5 | 1,503 | 0 | 0% | 1 km |
| Riverstick | 772 | 1 | 363 | 0 | 0% | 7.7 km |
| Robertstown | 771 | 3 | 618 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
| Ardfert | 771 | 1 | 215 | 0 | 0% | 5.8 km |
| Donore | 767 | 4 | 2,427 | 0 | 75% | 3.7 km |
| Ballineen-Enniskean | 766 | 2 | 207 | 0 | 0% | 13 km |
| … | ||||||
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
Among the 187 other towns, 69 have more pupils at their schools than Riverstick does. Within 3 km, 16 of these 188 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Riverstick
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 Riverstick had 371 pupils in 2015/16 and 363 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Riverstick
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 Riverstick
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverstick | 1 | 363 | 0 | 0% | 7.7 km |
| Kinsale 7.3 km | 5 | 2,264 | 1 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Carrigaline 8.8 km | 12 | 4,439 | 2 | 8% | 0.5 km |
| Lehenagh 11 km | 43 | 14,801 | 4 | 33% | 2.3 km |
| Frankfield and Grange 11 km | 58 | 20,798 | 6 | 24% | 2 km |
| Inishannon 11 km | 1 | 295 | 0 | 0% | 5.7 km |
| Inishkenny 11 km | 43 | 16,164 | 4 | 35% | 1.4 km |
Frankfield and Grange has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 6. The roll around Riverstick moved −5% since 2019/20; nearby, Kinsale grew most (+16%) and Inishannon least (−5%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Riverstick 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 Riverstick
How many schools are there in Riverstick?
In Riverstick or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school, with 363 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Riverstick that teach through Irish?
None in Riverstick or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Riverstick?
Not in Riverstick or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Kinsale Community School, 7.7 km away.
What is the best school in Riverstick?
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 Riverstick?
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).