Photo: Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Carraig Airt, 50% of schools teach every subject through Irish, more than around Co. Donegal’s towns or Irish towns
On this, Carraig Airt is above both Co. Donegal’s towns (7%) and Irish towns (8%). 2 of its 2 schools are in DEIS, the extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas, against 30% across Ireland. 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 Carraig Airt’s schools
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 Eoin Baiste (136) and S.N. Naomh Brid (66). Who runs them ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Carraig Airt 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 Carraig Airt’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.
Who runs Carraig Airt’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
2 of Carraig Airt’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Raphoe (2). 2 of the 2 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Carraig Airt
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
1 of Carraig Airt’s 2 schools teach every subject through Irish, 1 of them in the Gaeltacht: S.N. Naomh Brid.
Who Carraig Airt’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Donegal’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Carraig Airt | Co. Donegal | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 100% | 62% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 33% | 10% | 6% |
| Girls | 52% | 49% | 49% |
More of the pupils around Carraig Airt are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 100% against 27% (Co. Donegal: 62%). Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 33% against 6%. The largest DEIS school here is Scoil Eoin Baiste, with 136 pupils.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil Eoin BaistePrimary | 136 | 51% | ✓ | |
| S.N. Naomh BridPrimary | 66 | 53% | ✓ | ✓ |
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.
How children get a place in Carraig Airt
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
Since 2019/20, 0 of these 2 schools have grown by 5% or more and 1 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.
The 2 schools in and around Carraig Airt
Each school in or within 3 km of Carraig Airt links to a page of its own. No letters and no results: Ireland publishes none school by school.
Inspection reports for Carraig Airt’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
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 2 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Scoil Eoin BaistePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Naomh BridPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Carraig Airt
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
No post-primary school is within 10 km of Carraig Airt; the nearest is Mulroy College, 11 km away.
Special schools and classes around Carraig Airt
No special school is in or near Carraig Airt. 1 of the 2 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.
Carraig Airt beside the 224 other Irish towns of 200 to 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossbarry | 399 | 2 | 184 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Rathtoe | 296 | 1 | 175 | 0 | 0% | 4.6 km |
| Kilmaley | 296 | 1 | 88 | 0 | 0% | 8.8 km |
| Athleague | 296 | 1 | 105 | 0 | 0% | 6.6 km |
| Broadford | 294 | 1 | 136 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Carraig Airt | 294 | 2 | 202 | 1 | 100% | 11 km |
| Tullaghan | 293 | 2 | 609 | 0 | 50% | 3.4 km |
| Myshall | 292 | 1 | 106 | 0 | 100% | 9.5 km |
| Killavullen | 292 | 1 | 109 | 0 | 0% | 8.5 km |
| Dromore West | 292 | 1 | 90 | 0 | 100% | 6.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 68 of the other 224 towns than around Carraig Airt. 17 of the 225 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Carraig Airt
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 Carraig Airt had 198 pupils in 2015/16 and 202 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Carraig Airt
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 Carraig Airt
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
Pupils around Carraig Airt: −5% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Milford led (+11%) and Ramelton trailed (+3%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Carraig Airt 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 Carraig Airt
How many schools are there in Carraig Airt?
In Carraig Airt or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 202 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Carraig Airt that teach through Irish?
Yes, 1: S.N. Naomh Brid teach every subject through Irish.
Is there a secondary school in Carraig Airt?
Not in Carraig Airt or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Mulroy College, 11 km away.
What is the best school in Carraig Airt?
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 Carraig Airt?
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).