30 schools in and around Taylor's Hill: 18 primary schools, 9 secondary schools and 3 special schools
Every subject is taught through Irish at 13% of the schools around Taylor's Hill, below Co. Galway’s towns (15%) but above Irish towns (8%). They have 10,795 pupils between them, in or within 3 km of Taylor's Hill. 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 Taylor's Hill’s schools
A wide choice at twelve
Families here can choose among 11 post-primary schools within 10 km of the town, of more than one kind; each admits on its own published policy, so applying to more than one is common. The nearest: Dominican College (0.4 km), Coláiste Muire Máthair (0.8 km) and Coláiste Einde (1 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 30 schools in and around Taylor's Hill 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 Taylor's Hill’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 Taylor's Hill
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
4 of Taylor's Hill’s 30 schools teach every subject through Irish, 2 of them in the Gaeltacht: S.N. Fhursa, S.N. Iognaid and Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh.
Who Taylor's Hill’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside 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 Taylor's Hill | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 22% | 21% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 19% | 14% | 6% |
| Girls | 50% | 49% | 49% |
| Post-primary pupils at single-sex schools | 35% | 9% | 29% |
| Post-primary pupils at fee-paying schools | 0% | 0% | 6% |
DEIS schools teach 22% of the pupils around Taylor's Hill, a smaller share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Galway: 21%). Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 19% against 6%. The largest DEIS school here is Coláiste Einde, with 808 pupils.
Each of the 30 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste Muire MáthairPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 738 | 43% | ||
| S.N. FhursaPrimary | 216 | 54% | ✓ | |
| Dominican CollegePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 564 | 100% | ||
| Scoil Náisiúnta RóisPrimary | 297 | 59% | ||
| S.N. Bride NaofaPrimary | 187 | 45% | ✓ | |
| S.N. IognaidPrimary | 480 | 46% | ✓ | |
| Coláiste EindePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 808 | 43% | ✓ | |
| Coláiste Iognáid S.J.Post-primary · Voluntary secondary | 637 | 46% | ||
| Scoil Croi IosaPrimary | 122 | 49% | ✓ | |
| St Joseph's CollegePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 791 | 0% | ||
| Scoil Naomh EindePrimary | 119 | 1% | ||
| Jesus & Mary Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 658 | 100% | ||
| S.N. Padraic NaofaPrimary | 214 | 39% | ||
| Niochlas N.S.Primary | 262 | 46% | ✓ | |
| Scoil IdePrimary | 244 | 84% | ||
| Galway City & Oranmore Educate Together Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 379 | 48% | ||
| Gaelscoil Mhic AmhlaighPrimary | 643 | 53% | ✓ | |
| Scoil an Linbh IosaPrimary | 236 | 56% | ✓ | |
| Parochial N.S.Primary | 75 | 56% | ||
| St. John the Apostle, Knocknacarra NSPrimary | 400 | 48% | ||
| St Josephs Special SchSpecial | 80 | 26% | ||
| Galway Educate Together NSPrimary | 373 | 43% | ||
| Bushy Park N.S.Primary | 366 | 52% | ||
| Galway Community CollegePost-primary · ETB | 395 | 47% | ✓ | |
| Tirellan Heights N.S.Primary | 330 | 52% | ✓ | |
| Coláiste na CoiribePost-primary · ETB | 711 | 48% | ✓ | |
| Lakeview SchoolSpecial | 76 | 36% | ||
| Knocknacarra Educate Together NSPrimary | 207 | 43% | ||
| Cuan na Gaillimhe Community National SchoolPrimary | 112 | 43% | ||
| Rosedale SchoolSpecial | 75 | 39% |
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 Taylor's Hill’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
22 of Taylor's Hill’s 30 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh & Kilfenora (16), Le Chéile Schools Trust (3) and Educate Together (3). 7 of the 30 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 10 patrons of Taylor's Hill’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
Of the 30 schools around Taylor's Hill, 16 have Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh & Kilfenora as patron, teaching 45% of the pupils; 10 patrons in all. 3 are ETB schools. Educate Together runs 3.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh & KilfenoraColáiste Einde, Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh, S.N. Iognaid, St. John the Apostle, Knocknacarra NS, Bushy Park, Tirellan Heights, Scoil Náisiúnta Róis, Niochlas, Scoil Ide, Scoil an Linbh Iosa, S.N. Padraic Naofa, S.N. Bride Naofa, Scoil Croi Iosa, Scoil Naomh Einde, Lakeview School, Rosedale School | Catholic | 16 | 4,859 |
| Le Chéile Schools TrustSt Joseph's College, Jesus & Mary, Dominican College | Catholic | 3 | 2,013 |
| Educate TogetherGalway City & Oranmore Educate Together, Galway Educate Together NS, Knocknacarra Educate Together NS | Multi-denominational | 3 | 959 |
| Galway & Roscommon ETBColáiste na Coiribe, Galway | Multi-denominational, Inter-denominational | 2 | 1,106 |
| CEIST & Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh, KilfenoraColáiste Muire Máthair | Catholic | 1 | 738 |
| Society of Jesus (Jesuits)Coláiste Iognáid S.J. | Catholic | 1 | 637 |
| Minister for Education & SkillsS.N. Fhursa | Catholic | 1 | 216 |
| Galway and Roscommon ETBCuan na Gaillimhe Community | Multi-denominational | 1 | 112 |
| Ability WestSt Josephs Special Sch | Multi-denominational | 1 | 80 |
| Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry COIParochial | Church of Ireland | 1 | 75 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Taylor's Hill
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
Of these 26 schools, 7 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 11 have lost as much; Ireland’s pupils changed by +5%.
All 26 schools
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 30 schools in and around Taylor's Hill
Here are the schools in Taylor's Hill or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. Letters and results are missing here for a reason: Ireland publishes neither school by school.
Inspection reports for Taylor's Hill’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and 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 30 schools below each link their own.
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Taylor's Hill
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Families in Taylor's Hill have 11 post-primary schools within 10 km: 8 voluntary secondary schools and 3 ETB schools. Of these, 3 are single-sex: 2 for girls and 1 for boys. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominican CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 564 | 0.4 km |
| Coláiste Muire MáthairVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 738 | 0.8 km |
| Coláiste EindeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | DEIS | 808 | 1 km |
| Jesus & Mary Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 658 | 1.1 km |
| Coláiste Iognáid S.J.Voluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 637 | 1.2 km |
| St Joseph's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 791 | 1.4 km |
| Galway City & Oranmore Educate Together Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 379 | 1.7 km |
| Coláiste na CoiribeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaeltacht school | 711 | 3 km |
| Galway Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 395 | 3.3 km |
| Coláiste Mhuirlinne/Merlin CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 710 | 6.4 km |
| Calasanctius CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 906 | 9.7 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Taylor's Hill
3 special schools serve the area: St Josephs Special Sch, Lakeview School and Rosedale School, 231 pupils between them. 8 of the 18 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.
Taylor's Hill beside the 89 other Irish towns of 2,200 to 4,200 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lehenagh | 4,154 | 43 | 14,801 | 4 | 33% | 2.3 km |
| … | ||||||
| Rathangan | 3,263 | 3 | 1,345 | 0 | 33% | 0.6 km |
| Crosshaven | 3,263 | 5 | 1,057 | 0 | 20% | 0.5 km |
| Virginia | 3,211 | 3 | 1,430 | 0 | 0% | 0.7 km |
| Ballinrobe | 3,148 | 3 | 1,391 | 0 | 0% | 0.7 km |
| Taylor's Hill | 3,141 | 30 | 10,795 | 4 | 23% | 0.4 km |
| Blackpool | 3,124 | 65 | 18,866 | 5 | 52% | 0.6 km |
| Kinnegad | 3,064 | 1 | 413 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Ballynanty | 3,030 | 39 | 12,623 | 4 | 51% | 0.3 km |
| Moate | 3,013 | 4 | 1,410 | 0 | 0% | 0.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Abbeyfeale | 2,206 | 5 | 1,060 | 0 | 40% | 0.7 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 27 of the other 89 towns than around Taylor's Hill. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 49 of the 90.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Taylor's Hill
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 Taylor's Hill had 10,260 pupils in 2015/16 and 10,795 in 2025/26. Galway City & Oranmore Educate Together Secondary School grew most: +924% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Taylor's Hill
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 Taylor's Hill
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
Newcastle has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 5. The roll around Taylor's Hill moved +5% since 2019/20; nearby, Salthill grew most (+5%) and Dangan least (+1%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Taylor's Hill 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 Taylor's Hill
How many schools are there in Taylor's Hill?
In Taylor's Hill or within 3 km of it: 18 primary schools, 9 secondary schools and 3 special schools, with 10,795 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Taylor's Hill that teach through Irish?
Yes, 4: S.N. Fhursa, S.N. Iognaid and Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh teach every subject through Irish.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Taylor's Hill?
No: all 9 secondary schools here are free.
What is the best school in Taylor's Hill?
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 Taylor's Hill?
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).