Photo: Zairon · CC BY 4.0Fewer single-sex secondaries around Milltown than around Co. Kerry’s towns or Irish towns: 0%
Measured that way, Milltown is below both Co. Kerry’s towns (67%) and Irish towns (39%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, Presentation Secondary School, has 712 pupils. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
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.
The 4 schools in and around Milltown
Every school in Milltown or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Ireland publishes no school-by-school results, which is why these cards have no letters.
Where the 4 schools in and around Milltown 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 Milltown’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 Milltown
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 4 schools in and around Milltown teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Milltown’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 Milltown | Co. Kerry | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 2% | 20% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 9% | 6% |
| Girls | 51% | 49% | 49% |
Around Milltown, 2% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 20% in Co. Kerry. Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 0% against 6%. The largest DEIS school here is Kiltallagh N.S., with 21 pupils.
Each of the 4 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 712 | 52% | ||
| Nagle Rice Primary SchoolPrimary | 337 | 52% | ||
| Castlemaine N.S.Primary | 123 | 48% | ||
| Kiltallagh N.S.Primary | 21 | 62% | ✓ |
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 Milltown’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Milltown’s 4 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Kerry (2), CEIST (1) and Bishop of Limerick, Killaloe & Ardfert COI (1). 1 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.
The 3 patrons of Milltown’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
Of the 4 schools around Milltown, 2 have Bishop of Kerry as patron, teaching 39% of the pupils; 3 patrons in all.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of KerryNagle Rice Primary School, Castlemaine | Catholic | 2 | 460 |
| CEISTPresentation | Catholic | 1 | 712 |
| Bishop of Limerick, Killaloe & Ardfert COIKiltallagh | Church of Ireland | 1 | 21 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Milltown
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 4 schools, 2 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 2 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 Milltown’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
Each school is visited by inspectors from time to time, for a whole-school evaluation of teaching, learning and leadership, for one subject, or to follow up earlier advice, and every report is posted 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 4 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Presentation Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Nagle Rice Primary SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Castlemaine N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Kiltallagh 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 Milltown
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
3 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Milltown: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 712 | 0.2 km |
| Community College KillorglinETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 285 | 6.7 km |
| The Intermediate SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 711 | 6.8 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Milltown
No special school is in or near Milltown. 2 of the 3 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.
Milltown beside the 131 other Irish towns of 800 to 1,500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochfortbridge | 1,498 | 2 | 1,343 | 0 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Coolaney | 1,155 | 1 | 174 | 0 | 0% | 7.5 km |
| Ennistimon | 1,137 | 5 | 1,088 | 0 | 60% | 0.6 km |
| Crossmolina | 1,134 | 3 | 1,029 | 0 | 33% | 0.8 km |
| Drumlish | 1,124 | 1 | 215 | 0 | 100% | 10 km |
| Milltown | 1,118 | 4 | 1,193 | 0 | 25% | 0.2 km |
| Borrisokane | 1,117 | 2 | 862 | 0 | 50% | 1 km |
| Ballyragget | 1,116 | 1 | 163 | 0 | 0% | 8 km |
| Ballinamore | 1,112 | 2 | 573 | 0 | 50% | 1.1 km |
| Buttevant | 1,080 | 2 | 802 | 0 | 100% | 0.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ballon | 801 | 1 | 239 | 0 | 0% | 7.5 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 19 of the other 131 towns than around Milltown. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 15 of the 132.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Milltown
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 Milltown had 977 pupils in 2015/16 and 1,193 in 2025/26. Castlemaine N.S. grew most: +54% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Milltown
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 Milltown
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milltown | 4 | 1,193 | 0 | 25% | 0.2 km |
| Killorglin 6.7 km | 4 | 1,406 | 0 | 50% | 0.4 km |
| Tralee 14 km | 18 | 6,726 | 2 | 39% | 0.6 km |
| Killarney 17 km | 12 | 4,102 | 1 | 8% | 0.8 km |
Tralee has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. The roll around Milltown moved +9% since 2019/20; nearby, Killorglin grew most (+18%) and Tralee least (+5%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Milltown 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 Milltown
How many schools are there in Milltown?
In Milltown or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 1,193 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Milltown that teach through Irish?
None in Milltown 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 Milltown?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Milltown?
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 Milltown?
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).