Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0No secondary school in or near Kill: the nearest is 5.5 km away
Every subject is taught through Irish at 0% of the schools around Kill, below both Co. Kildare’s towns (6%) and Irish towns (8%). In or within 3 km of Kill: 1 primary school and 1 special school, 774 pupils in all. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
Counted from the Department of Education’s 2025/26 lists: every school in the town or within 3 km of it, against every school in Ireland.
What stands out about Kill’s schools
A wide choice at twelve
Families here can choose among 9 post-primary schools within 10 km of the town, of more than one kind; each admits on its own published policy, so applying to more than one is common. The nearest: Coláiste Naomh Mhuire (5.4 km), Meánscoil Iognáid Ris (5.6 km) and Naas Community College (5.7 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Kill 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 Kill’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 Kill
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Kill teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Kill’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Kildare’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Kill | Co. Kildare | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 17% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 6% | 6% |
| Girls | 50% | 49% | 49% |
Fewer of the pupils around Kill are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 0% against 27% (Co. Kildare: 17%). The biggest difference from Ireland is in pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here, 6% there.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saplings Special SchoolSpecial | 30 | 20% | ||
| S.N. BrighdePrimary | 744 | 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.
Who runs Kill’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
1 of Kill’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Sapling School Company Limited by Guarantee (1) and Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin (1). None of the 2 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 Kill
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 2 schools in and around Kill
Each school in or within 3 km of Kill links to a page of its own. Letters and results are missing here for a reason: Ireland publishes neither school by school.
Inspection reports for Kill’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and 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 2 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Saplings Special SchoolSpecial | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. BrighdePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Kill
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
Within 10 km of Kill there are 9 post-primary schools: 4 voluntary secondary schools, 3 ETB schools and 2 community schools. 3 teach girls and boys apart: 1 girls’ and 2 boys’ schools. One of them charges fees. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste Naomh MhuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 1,076 | 5.4 km |
| Meánscoil Iognáid RisVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 1,013 | 5.6 km |
| Naas Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 928 | 5.7 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Chill DaraVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 401 | 6 km |
| Piper's Hill CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 1,049 | 7.5 km |
| Holy Family Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 998 | 8.4 km |
| Scoil Mhuire Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,189 | 8.7 km |
| Blessington Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 737 | 9.1 km |
| Clongowes Wood CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | Fee-paying, Boarding | 421 | 9.5 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Kill
Saplings Special School is the special school here, with 30 pupils. 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.
Kill beside the 92 other Irish towns of 2,700 to 5,200 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tullow | 5,138 | 4 | 1,339 | 0 | 75% | 0.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Charleville | 3,970 | 6 | 1,334 | 0 | 50% | 0.3 km |
| Castleblayney | 3,926 | 9 | 2,076 | 1 | 44% | 0.5 km |
| Claremorris | 3,857 | 3 | 1,120 | 0 | 0% | 0.7 km |
| Farranree | 3,824 | 57 | 16,957 | 5 | 56% | 0.4 km |
| Kill | 3,818 | 2 | 774 | 0 | 0% | 5.5 km |
| Kilcullen | 3,815 | 3 | 1,524 | 0 | 0% | 0.2 km |
| Shanakiel | 3,804 | 52 | 16,547 | 5 | 54% | 0.6 km |
| Mitchelstown | 3,744 | 5 | 1,646 | 0 | 40% | 0.4 km |
| Stamullen | 3,720 | 3 | 1,043 | 0 | 0% | 2.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Decies | 2,713 | 44 | 11,294 | 1 | 64% | 0.8 km |
Among the 92 other towns, 88 have more pupils at their schools than Kill does. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 60 of the 93.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Kill
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 Kill had 647 pupils in 2015/16 and 774 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Kill
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 Kill
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
Naas has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Kill changed by +12%; among its neighbours, Newcastle’s grew most (+18%) and Straffan’s least (+3%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Kill 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 Kill
How many schools are there in Kill?
In Kill or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school and 1 special school, with 774 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Kill that teach through Irish?
None in Kill or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Kill?
Not in Kill or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Coláiste Naomh Mhuire, 5.5 km away.
What is the best school in Kill?
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 Kill?
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).