More children at the schools around Cut Bush: +27% since 2019/20, above Co. Kildare’s towns and Irish towns
That puts Cut Bush above both Co. Kildare’s towns (+7%) and Irish towns (+4%). Its schools have 661 pupils, 27% more than in 2019/20. 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.
What stands out about Cut Bush’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: Curragh Community College (288), St. Catherine of Sienna (151) and S.N. Bride (55). 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 ↓
A wide choice at twelve
Within 10 km of the town there are 7 post-primary schools to choose from, of different kinds; each sets its own admission policy, and many families apply to several. The nearest: Curragh Community College (2.7 km), Cross And Passion College (5.6 km) and St Conleth's Community College (6.8 km). Post-primary choices ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Who runs Cut Bush’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Cut Bush’s 4 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin (2), Kildare & Wicklow ETB (1) and Joint patronage between the Minister for Defence and the Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin (1). 3 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 Cut Bush
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 Cut Bush had 673 pupils in 2015/16 and 661 in 2025/26, fewer than before. Curragh Community College grew most: +112% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Cut Bush
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.
The 4 schools in and around Cut Bush
Here are the schools in Cut Bush or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. These schools carry no letter or result: Ireland doesn’t release them school by school.
Where the 4 schools in and around Cut Bush 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 Cut Bush’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 Cut Bush
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 4 schools in and around Cut Bush teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Cut Bush’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Kildare’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 Cut Bush | Co. Kildare | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 75% | 17% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 6% | 6% |
| Girls | 51% | 49% | 49% |
More of the pupils around Cut Bush are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 75% against 27% (Co. Kildare: 17%). Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%. Curragh Community College, with 288 pupils, is the largest school here in DEIS.
Each of the 4 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Brigids N.S.Primary | 167 | 51% | ||
| S.N. BridePrimary | 55 | 44% | ✓ | |
| Curragh Community CollegePost-primary · ETB | 288 | 51% | ✓ | |
| St. Catherine of SiennaPrimary | 151 | 54% | ✓ |
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 Cut Bush’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
The schools around Cut Bush answer to 3 patrons, and Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin leads with 2 of the 4 schools and 34% of their pupils. An Education and Training Board runs one of them.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of Kildare & LeighlinSt Brigids, S.N. Bride | Catholic | 2 | 222 |
| Kildare & Wicklow ETBCurragh | Multi-denominational | 1 | 288 |
| Joint patronage between the Minister for Defence and the Bishop of Kildare & LeighlinSt. Catherine of Sienna | Catholic | 1 | 151 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Cut Bush
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, 2 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.
Inspection reports for Cut Bush’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, none rated
Reports come from whole-school evaluations (teaching, learning, leadership and management), subject inspections and follow-through visits that check earlier advice; gov.ie publishes each one with the school’s response.
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 |
|---|---|
| St Brigids N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. BridePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Curragh Community CollegePost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St. Catherine of SiennaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Cut Bush
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
Families in Cut Bush have 7 post-primary schools within 10 km: 4 voluntary secondary schools, 2 ETB schools and one community school. 2 teach girls and boys apart: 1 girls’ and 1 boys’ schools. One of them charges fees. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curragh Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 288 | 2.7 km |
| Cross And Passion CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 843 | 5.6 km |
| St Conleth's Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 752 | 6.8 km |
| Holy Family Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 789 | 7.2 km |
| Patrician Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 932 | 7.2 km |
| Newbridge CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | Fee-paying | 923 | 7.6 km |
| Kildare Town Community SchoolCommunity school · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,014 | 7.6 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Cut Bush
No special school is in or near Cut Bush. 1 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.
Cut Bush beside the 224 other Irish towns of 200 to 400 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossbarry | 399 | 2 | 184 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Rockcorry | 302 | 2 | 110 | 0 | 50% | 6.4 km |
| Silvermines | 301 | 1 | 57 | 0 | 0% | 8.3 km |
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
| Clogh | 298 | 3 | 213 | 0 | 100% | 7.6 km |
| Cut Bush | 297 | 4 | 661 | 0 | 75% | 2.7 km |
| Castletown Geoghegan | 297 | 2 | 105 | 0 | 0% | 8.5 km |
| Villierstown | 297 | 2 | 99 | 0 | 0% | 7.9 km |
| Rathtoe | 296 | 1 | 175 | 0 | 0% | 4.6 km |
| Kilmaley | 296 | 1 | 88 | 0 | 0% | 8.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
Among the 224 other towns, 15 have more pupils at their schools than Cut Bush does. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 17 of the 225.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Cut Bush
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
Curragh Camp has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Pupils around Cut Bush: +27% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Dunlavin led (+22%) and Kilcullen trailed (−1%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Cut Bush 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 Cut Bush
How many schools are there in Cut Bush?
In Cut Bush or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 661 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Cut Bush that teach through Irish?
None in Cut Bush 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 Cut Bush?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Cut Bush?
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 Cut Bush?
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).