Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainPupil numbers around Kildangan have fallen behind Co. Kildare’s towns and Irish towns: −8% since 2019/20
That leaves Kildangan below both Co. Kildare’s towns (+7%) and Irish towns (+4%). S.N. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
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.
Where the school in or near Kildangan is
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 Kildangan’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 Kildangan
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 1 schools in and around Kildangan teaches every subject through Irish.
Who runs Kildangan’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
1 of Kildangan’s 1 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin (1). None of the 1 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.
How children get a place in Kildangan
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.
The school in and around Kildangan
Each school in or within 3 km of Kildangan links to a page of its own. Ireland doesn’t publish results for individual schools, so none of these carries a letter.
Inspection reports for Kildangan’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, 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 the school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the school below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. Cill DainginPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Kildangan
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
Families in Kildangan have 2 post-primary schools within 10 km: one voluntary secondary school and one community school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Pauls Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | DEIS | 843 | 4.4 km |
| Kildare Town Community SchoolCommunity school · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,014 | 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 Kildangan
No special school is in or near Kildangan. 1 of the 1 primary schools has 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.
Kildangan beside the 166 other Irish towns of 400 to 700 people
Towns of a similar size, with the schools in or within 3 km of each; ordered by population, never ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanagarry | 700 | 2 | 201 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ballinabrannagh | 557 | 1 | 184 | 0 | 0% | 4.6 km |
| Glenamaddy | 557 | 3 | 623 | 0 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Ballygarvan | 556 | 1 | 366 | 0 | 0% | 4.2 km |
| Waterville | 555 | 1 | 110 | 0 | 0% | 13 km |
| Kildangan | 546 | 1 | 207 | 0 | 0% | 4.4 km |
| Tarbert | 546 | 2 | 679 | 0 | 50% | 0.7 km |
| Ballyheigue | 546 | 2 | 167 | 0 | 50% | 6.9 km |
| Ballycanew | 544 | 1 | 224 | 0 | 100% | 7.2 km |
| Bridgetown | 544 | 3 | 1,049 | 0 | 67% | 0.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Oilgate | 401 | 2 | 152 | 0 | 100% | 6.2 km |
Of the other 166 towns, 87 have more pupils at the schools around them than Kildangan. Within 3 km, 12 of these 167 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Kildangan
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 Kildangan had 225 pupils in 2015/16 and 207 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Kildangan
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 Kildangan
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kildangan | 1 | 207 | 0 | 0% | 4.4 km |
| Monasterevin 5.1 km | 5 | 1,605 | 0 | 20% | 0.7 km |
| Kildare 9.6 km | 4 | 2,671 | 1 | 25% | 1.2 km |
| Curragh Camp 12 km | 8 | 1,733 | 1 | 38% | 1.2 km |
| Athy 13 km | 7 | 2,975 | 1 | 57% | 0.8 km |
| Portarlington 13 km | 5 | 2,657 | 0 | 0% | 1.3 km |
| Stradbally 13 km | 2 | 375 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
Kildare has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. The roll around Kildangan moved −8% since 2019/20; nearby, Monasterevin grew most (+24%) and Portarlington least (−3%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Kildangan 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 Kildangan
How many schools are there in Kildangan?
In Kildangan or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school, with 207 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Kildangan that teach through Irish?
None in Kildangan or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Kildangan?
Not in Kildangan or within 3 km of it; the nearest is St Pauls Secondary School, 4.4 km away.
What is the best school in Kildangan?
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 Kildangan?
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).