Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer single-sex secondaries around Gort than around Co. Galway’s towns or Irish towns: 0%
On this, Gort is below both Co. Galway’s towns (33%) and Irish towns (39%). Gort Community School, with 1,043 pupils, is the only secondary school within 3 km. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
Every school in the town or within 3 km of its outline, from the Department of Education’s lists for 2025/26; Ireland’s figures are every school in the lists.
What stands out about Gort’s schools
More all-Irish schools than most places
Families here have more choice of a school that teaches every subject through Irish than in most of Ireland, where 8% of schools do. The school is Gaelscoil na bhFili (41). Language ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Teaching through Irish in and around Gort
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
1 of Gort’s 5 schools teach every subject through Irish: Gaelscoil na bhFili.
The 5 schools in and around Gort
Each school in or within 3 km of Gort links to a page of its own. Ireland publishes no results school by school, so these cards carry no letters or results.
Where the 5 schools in and around Gort 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 Gort’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 Gort’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against Co. Galway’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 Gort | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 13% | 21% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 3% | 14% | 6% |
| Girls | 45% | 49% | 49% |
DEIS schools teach 13% of the pupils around Gort, a smaller share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Galway: 21%). The largest DEIS school here is Gort National School, with 197 pupils.
Each of the 5 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gort Community SchoolPost-primary · Community school | 1,043 | 45% | ||
| Gaelscoil na bhFiliPrimary | 41 | 54% | ✓ | |
| Gort National SchoolPrimary | 197 | 44% | ✓ | |
| S.N. Cill TartainPrimary | 117 | 50% | ||
| S.N. Cill FheicinPrimary | 69 | 42% |
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 Gort’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Gort’s 5 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh & Kilfenora (3), Galway & Roscommon ETB & Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh & Kilfenora (1) and An Foras Pátrúnachta (1). 1 of the 5 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 3 patrons of Gort’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
The schools around Gort answer to 3 patrons, and Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh & Kilfenora leads with 3 of the 5 schools and 26% of their pupils. The local Education and Training Board runs one.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh & KilfenoraGort, S.N. Cill Tartain, S.N. Cill Fheicin | Catholic | 3 | 383 |
| Galway & Roscommon ETB & Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh & KilfenoraGort | Inter-denominational | 1 | 1,043 |
| An Foras PátrúnachtaGaelscoil na bhFili | Multi-denominational | 1 | 41 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Gort
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, 2 of the 5 grew by 5% or more and 0 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.
Inspection reports for Gort’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 5 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Gort Community SchoolPost-primary · Community school | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Gaelscoil na bhFiliPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Gort National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Cill TartainPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Cill FheicinPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Gort
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Gort is Gort Community School, a community school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gort Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,043 | 0.7 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Gort beside the 87 other Irish towns of 2,000 to 3,900 people
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km, listed by population: Ireland publishes no results, so none is ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claremorris | 3,857 | 3 | 1,120 | 0 | 0% | 0.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Murrough | 2,909 | 22 | 7,826 | 2 | 41% | 1.6 km |
| Skibbereen | 2,903 | 5 | 1,562 | 1 | 0% | 0.8 km |
| Carna | 2,897 | 60 | 18,688 | 4 | 58% | 0.9 km |
| Ballybrack | 2,872 | 41 | 11,728 | 1 | 29% | 0.9 km |
| Gort | 2,870 | 5 | 1,467 | 1 | 20% | 0.7 km |
| Mayfield | 2,846 | 65 | 19,177 | 6 | 45% | 0.3 km |
| Sixmilebridge | 2,832 | 1 | 423 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Edenmore | 2,831 | 71 | 20,216 | 5 | 41% | 0.9 km |
| Sunday's Well | 2,807 | 69 | 20,909 | 6 | 52% | 0.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Enniskerry | 2,000 | 10 | 2,487 | 0 | 20% | 2.9 km |
Among the 87 other towns, 42 have more pupils at their schools than Gort does. Within 3 km, 42 of these 88 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Gort
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 Gort had 1,134 pupils in 2015/16 and 1,467 in 2025/26. Gort Community School grew most: +22% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Gort
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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Gort 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 Gort
How many schools are there in Gort?
In Gort or within 3 km of it: 4 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 1,467 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Gort that teach through Irish?
Yes, 1: Gaelscoil na bhFili teach every subject through Irish.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Gort?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Gort?
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 Gort?
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).