Photo: nick macneill · CC BY-SA 2.0Most post-primaries around Castlegregory take girls and boys: 0% are single-sex, below Co. Kerry’s towns and Irish towns
On this, Castlegregory is below both Co. Kerry’s towns (67%) and Irish towns (39%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, Meanscoil Nua an Leith Triuigh, has 160 pupils. 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.
Who runs Castlegregory’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Castlegregory’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Kerry (3). None of the 3 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.
The 3 schools in and around Castlegregory
Each school in or within 3 km of Castlegregory links to a page of its own. Results by school aren’t published in Ireland, so the cards carry none.
Where the 3 schools in and around Castlegregory 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 Castlegregory’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 Castlegregory
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 3 schools in and around Castlegregory teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Castlegregory’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Kerry’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 Castlegregory | Co. Kerry | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 20% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 9% | 6% |
| Girls | 52% | 49% | 49% |
0% of the pupils around Castlegregory are at a DEIS school, fewer than the 27% across Ireland (20% in Co. Kerry). Furthest from Ireland’s mix is the share of pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here against 6%.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meanscoil Nua an Leith TriuighPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 160 | 49% | ||
| Castlegregory Mxd N.S.Primary | 147 | 54% | ||
| Aghacasla N.S.Primary | 107 | 52% |
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.
One patron for Castlegregory’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
One patron, Bishop of Kerry, runs every school around Castlegregory.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of KerryMeanscoil Nua an Leith Triuigh, Castlegregory Mxd, Aghacasla | Catholic | 3 | 414 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Castlegregory
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 3 schools, 2 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 0 have lost as much; Ireland’s 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.
Inspection reports for Castlegregory’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
The Inspectorate inspects schools in several ways: a whole-school evaluation covers teaching, learning and how the school is led; a subject inspection looks at one subject; a follow-through checks on earlier advice. Reports go on gov.ie with the school’s reply.
Reports say what inspectors found and what should improve, without an overall grade, so none appears here; each of the 3 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Meanscoil Nua an Leith TriuighPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Castlegregory Mxd N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Aghacasla N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Castlegregory
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Castlegregory is Meanscoil Nua an Leith Triuigh, a voluntary secondary school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meanscoil Nua an Leith TriuighVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 160 | 0.8 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Castlegregory beside the 169 other Irish towns of 300 to 500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Kildorrery | 372 | 1 | 177 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Mungret | 372 | 12 | 4,700 | 1 | 0% | 0.6 km |
| Rathcoffey | 371 | 2 | 636 | 0 | 0% | 2.3 km |
| Campile | 371 | 1 | 238 | 0 | 100% | 5.8 km |
| Castlegregory | 370 | 3 | 414 | 0 | 0% | 0.8 km |
| Ballinspittle | 369 | 1 | 192 | 0 | 0% | 6.5 km |
| Louisburgh | 367 | 2 | 704 | 0 | 50% | 0.2 km |
| Baile Mhic Íre | 366 | 2 | 349 | 2 | 0% | 0.4 km |
| Clonard | 364 | 1 | 63 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 33 of the other 169 towns than around Castlegregory. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 16 of the 170.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Castlegregory
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Castlegregory had 343 pupils in 2015/16 and 414 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Castlegregory
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 Castlegregory 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 Castlegregory
How many schools are there in Castlegregory?
In Castlegregory or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 414 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Castlegregory that teach through Irish?
None in Castlegregory or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Castlegregory?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Castlegregory?
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 Castlegregory?
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).