Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainThe schools around Brittas have fewer pupils than in 2019/20: −50%, below Co. Dublin’s towns and Irish towns
For Brittas, that is below both Co. Dublin’s towns (+4%) and Irish towns (+4%). S.N. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never 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 Brittas’s schools
Fewer pupils than before
Pupil numbers at the schools here have fallen since 2019/20, against +5% across Ireland. Pupils over time ↓
A wide choice at twelve
Within 10 km of the town there are 14 post-primary schools to choose from, of different kinds; each sets its own admission policy, and many families apply to several. The nearest: Holy Family Community School (4.2 km), Coláiste pobail Fóla (5.1 km) and Mount Seskin Community College (5.5 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Where the school in or near Brittas 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 Brittas’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.
Pupil numbers around Brittas
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 Brittas had 134 pupils in 2015/16 and 57 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Brittas
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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Brittas
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 1 schools in and around Brittas teaches every subject through Irish.
Who runs Brittas’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
1 of Brittas’s 1 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Archbishop of Dublin (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 Brittas
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 Brittas
Every school in Brittas or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. You won’t find letters or results below: Ireland publishes none for single schools.
Inspection reports for Brittas’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
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 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 |
|---|---|
| S.N. BriotasPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Brittas
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
14 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Brittas: 6 ETB schools, 5 community schools and 3 voluntary secondary schools. Of these, 2 are single-sex: 1 for girls and 1 for boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Family Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 998 | 4.2 km |
| Coláiste pobail FólaETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 758 | 5.1 km |
| Mount Seskin Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 350 | 5.5 km |
| Killinarden Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 471 | 5.9 km |
| St Aidan's Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 561 | 6.1 km |
| St Marks Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 931 | 7.5 km |
| Old Bawn Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,024 | 7.7 km |
| Firhouse Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 825 | 8.5 km |
| Firhouse Educate Together Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 411 | 9.1 km |
| Blessington Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 737 | 9.3 km |
| Kingswood Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,006 | 9.5 km |
| Deansrath Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 425 | 9.7 km |
All 14 post-primary schools within reach
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste BrídeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 993 | 9.8 km |
| Moyle Park CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 763 | 9.9 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Schools in the towns around Brittas
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brittas | 1 | 57 | 0 | 0% | 4.2 km |
| Rathcoole 4.4 km | 11 | 5,371 | 2 | 9% | 0.5 km |
| Saggart 4.6 km | 23 | 9,161 | 3 | 61% | 0.7 km |
| Jobstown 5.6 km | 53 | 19,772 | 5 | 45% | 0.1 km |
| Newcastle 6.6 km | 11 | 5,403 | 2 | 0% | 2.4 km |
| Fettercairn 6.7 km | 72 | 25,995 | 8 | 50% | 0.6 km |
| Bohernabreena 7.7 km | 54 | 19,297 | 5 | 46% | 0.9 km |
Fettercairn has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 8. Of Brittas’s neighbours, Rathcoole saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+23%) and Bohernabreena the least (−2%); Brittas itself: −50%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Brittas 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 Brittas
How many schools are there in Brittas?
In Brittas or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school, with 57 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Brittas that teach through Irish?
None in Brittas or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Brittas?
Not in Brittas or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Holy Family Community School, 4.2 km away.
What is the best school in Brittas?
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 Brittas?
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).