DEIS support is less common around Tievebane: 0% of schools, below Co. Donegal’s towns and Irish towns
Set beside other towns, Tievebane comes out below both Co. Donegal’s towns (38%) and Irish towns (35%). Every one of its 2 schools within 3 km has a Catholic ethos. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results 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.
Where the 2 schools in and around Tievebane 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 Tievebane’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 Tievebane’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Tievebane’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Derry (2). None of the 2 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Tievebane
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Tievebane teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Tievebane’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 Tievebane | Co. Donegal | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 62% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 10% | 6% |
| Girls | 48% | 49% | 49% |
Fewer of the pupils around Tievebane are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 0% against 27% (Co. Donegal: 62%). Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Muras N.S.Primary | 189 | 51% | ||
| S.N. Naomh AonghusPrimary | 218 | 45% |
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 Tievebane
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, 1 of the 2 grew by 5% or more and 1 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 2 schools in and around Tievebane
Each school in or within 3 km of Tievebane links to a page of its own. Without school-level results from Ireland, the cards show no letters.
Inspection reports for Tievebane’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and 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 each school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the 2 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| St Muras N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Naomh AonghusPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Tievebane
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Within 10 km of Tievebane there are 3 post-primary schools: 2 ETB schools and one voluntary secondary school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil Mhuire Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | DEIS | 885 | 7.5 km |
| Crana CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 585 | 7.9 km |
| Coláiste EoghainETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 13 | 8.8 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Tievebane
No special school is in or near Tievebane. 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.
Tievebane beside the 263 other Irish towns of 300 to 700 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanagarry | 700 | 2 | 201 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| … | ||||||
| Barntown | 505 | 4 | 2,030 | 0 | 25% | 3.4 km |
| Glenville | 501 | 1 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 7.7 km |
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| Nurney | 497 | 1 | 183 | 0 | 0% | 8.5 km |
| Tievebane | 495 | 2 | 407 | 0 | 0% | 7.5 km |
| Smithborough | 495 | 2 | 240 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| Suncroft | 491 | 2 | 222 | 0 | 50% | 4.9 km |
| Drimoleague | 486 | 3 | 121 | 0 | 0% | 12 km |
| Blackwater | 485 | 1 | 218 | 0 | 0% | 8.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 65 of the other 263 towns than around Tievebane. Within 3 km, 22 of these 264 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Tievebane
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 Tievebane had 421 pupils in 2015/16 and 407 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Tievebane
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 Tievebane
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tievebane | 2 | 407 | 0 | 0% | 7.5 km |
| Buncrana 8.2 km | 7 | 2,583 | 2 | 43% | 0.6 km |
| Newtowncunningham 9.4 km | 2 | 280 | 0 | 50% | 14 km |
| Muff 9.5 km | 1 | 196 | 0 | 0% | 14 km |
| Ramelton 15 km | 4 | 354 | 0 | 50% | 6.7 km |
| Milford 18 km | 3 | 1,645 | 0 | 67% | 0.5 km |
Buncrana has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Pupils around Tievebane: −3% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Milford led (+11%) and Newtowncunningham trailed (−11%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Tievebane 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 Tievebane
How many schools are there in Tievebane?
In Tievebane or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 407 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Tievebane that teach through Irish?
None in Tievebane or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Tievebane?
Not in Tievebane or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Scoil Mhuire Secondary School, 7.5 km away.
What is the best school in Tievebane?
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 Tievebane?
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).