Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer single-sex secondaries around Killorglin than around Co. Kerry’s towns or Irish towns: 0%
In the comparison, Killorglin comes below both Co. Kerry’s towns (67%) and Irish towns (39%). Pupils: 1,406, up 18% since 2019/20. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
Schools in the town or within 3 km of its outline, Department of Education lists for 2025/26; the Ireland figures cover all schools listed.
What stands out about Killorglin’s schools
Extra support for many schools
Many schools here are in DEIS, which gives schools in disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and help; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. In DEIS: Community College Killorglin (285) and Gaelscoil Naomh Séamas (43). Who runs them ↓
More pupils every year
Pupil numbers at the schools here have grown faster than across Ireland (+5% since 2019/20), so classes and new places are a question worth asking. Pupils over time ↓
One school growing fast
The fastest-growing school here is The Intermediate School: 480 pupils in 2019/20, 711 now. Getting a place ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Who runs Killorglin’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Killorglin’s 4 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Kerry (2), Named Individual (1) and Kerry ETB (1). 2 of the 4 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.
Pupil numbers around Killorglin
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 Killorglin had 1,237 pupils in 2015/16 and 1,406 in 2025/26. The Intermediate School grew most: +48% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Killorglin
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.
Where the 4 schools in and around Killorglin 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 Killorglin’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 Killorglin
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 4 schools in and around Killorglin teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Killorglin’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against 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 Killorglin | Co. Kerry | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 23% | 20% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 9% | 6% |
| Girls | 50% | 49% | 49% |
| Post-primary pupils at single-sex schools | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| Post-primary pupils at fee-paying schools | 0% | 0% | 6% |
Around Killorglin, 23% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 20% in Co. Kerry. Where this area differs most from Ireland is post-primary pupils at single-sex schools, at 0% against 29%. Community College Killorglin, with 285 pupils, is the largest school here in DEIS.
Each of the 4 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Intermediate SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 711 | 50% | ||
| Scoil Mhuire BPrimary | 367 | 51% | ||
| Community College KillorglinPost-primary · ETB | 285 | 48% | ✓ | |
| Gaelscoil Naomh SéamasPrimary | 43 | 56% | ✓ |
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.
The 3 patrons of Killorglin’s schools
Patrons own the schools and set their ethos; boards of management run them day to day.
3 patrons run the 4 schools around Killorglin; the largest, Bishop of Kerry, has 2 of them and 29% of the pupils. The local Education and Training Board runs one.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of KerryScoil Mhuire B, Gaelscoil Naomh Séamas | Catholic | 2 | 410 |
| Named IndividualThe Intermediate School | Catholic | 1 | 711 |
| Kerry ETBCommunity College Killorglin | Multi-denominational | 1 | 285 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Killorglin
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
1 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 1 have shrunk by as much, out of 3; across Ireland: +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 4 schools in and around Killorglin
Here are the schools in Killorglin or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. Ireland doesn’t publish results for individual schools, so none of these carries a letter.
Inspection reports for Killorglin’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 4 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| The Intermediate SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil Mhuire BPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Community College KillorglinPost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Gaelscoil Naomh SéamasPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Killorglin
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
3 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Killorglin: 2 voluntary secondary schools and one ETB school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Intermediate SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 711 | 0.4 km |
| Community College KillorglinETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 285 | 0.7 km |
| Presentation Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 712 | 7 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Killorglin beside the 92 other Irish towns of 1,500 to 2,900 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carna | 2,897 | 60 | 18,688 | 4 | 58% | 0.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ballyshannon | 2,246 | 6 | 1,236 | 1 | 83% | 0.6 km |
| Abbeyfeale | 2,206 | 5 | 1,060 | 0 | 40% | 0.7 km |
| Edgeworthstown | 2,199 | 3 | 423 | 0 | 33% | 11 km |
| Newport | 2,183 | 4 | 1,527 | 0 | 25% | 0.4 km |
| Killorglin | 2,163 | 4 | 1,406 | 0 | 50% | 0.4 km |
| Dunleer | 2,143 | 5 | 1,205 | 0 | 20% | 0.8 km |
| Mountrath | 2,070 | 7 | 1,306 | 1 | 29% | 0.8 km |
| Bunclody | 2,053 | 5 | 1,912 | 0 | 40% | 0.5 km |
| Templemore | 2,005 | 5 | 973 | 0 | 60% | 0.3 km |
| … | ||||||
| Graiguenamanagh-Tinnahinch | 1,506 | 4 | 399 | 0 | 75% | 0.3 km |
Of the other 92 towns, 21 have more pupils at the schools around them than Killorglin. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 25 of the 93.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Killorglin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Killorglin | 4 | 1,406 | 0 | 50% | 0.4 km |
| Milltown 6.7 km | 4 | 1,193 | 0 | 25% | 0.2 km |
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Killorglin 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 Killorglin
How many schools are there in Killorglin?
In Killorglin or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools and 2 secondary schools, with 1,406 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Killorglin that teach through Irish?
None in Killorglin 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 Killorglin?
No: all 2 secondary schools here are free.
What is the best school in Killorglin?
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 Killorglin?
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).