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Schools in and around Kilteel · Department of Education

Schools near Kilteel: none within 3 km

The nearest primary school is 4.1 km away. With no school results published in Ireland, and the Education Act 1998 restricting comparisons of them, these schools are described, not graded or ranked.

Schools
0
in or within 3 km of Kilteel
0 inside the town itself
School Grade
Not graded
no school results are published (Education Act 1998, s.53)

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 · In brief

What stands out about Kilteel’s schools

A wide choice at twelve

10 post-primary schools lie within 10 km, so families here have a real choice at twelve; each admits on its own policy. The nearest: Holy Family Community School (5.7 km), Blessington Community College (7.1 km) and Coláiste pobail Fóla (8.1 km). Post-primary choices ↓

From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.

Post-primary choices

Post-primary schools within reach of Kilteel

Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve

Within 10 km of Kilteel there are 10 post-primary schools: 4 ETB schools, 3 community schools and 3 voluntary secondary schools. Of these, 2 are single-sex: 1 for girls and 1 for boys. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.

Within 10 km
10
post-primary schools; 0 in the area
Single-sex
2
of the 10 within reach
Nearest
5.7 km
Holy Family Community School
SchoolTakesAlsoPupilsAway
Holy Family Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominationalGirls and boys–9985.7 km
Blessington Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominationalGirls and boys–7377.1 km
Coláiste pobail FólaETB · Multi-denominationalGirls and boys–7588.1 km
Meánscoil Iognáid RisVoluntary secondary · CatholicBoys–1,0139.2 km
Mount Seskin Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominationalGirls and boysDEIS3509.2 km
Coláiste Naomh MhuireVoluntary secondary · CatholicGirls–1,0769.3 km
St Aidan's Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominationalGirls and boysDEIS5619.6 km
Gaelcholáiste Chill DaraVoluntary secondary · CatholicGirls and boysGaelcholáiste4019.7 km
Killinarden Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominationalGirls and boysDEIS4719.8 km
Naas Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominationalGirls and boys–9289.9 km

Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.

Towns its size

Kilteel beside the 224 other Irish towns of 200 to 400 people

Towns of a similar size, with the schools in or within 3 km of each; ordered by population, never ranked

TownPeopleSchoolsPupilsAll-IrishDEIS schoolsNearest post-primary
Crossbarry399218400%8.4 km
…
Gob an Choire26533171100%2.1 km
Milford264371400%3.3 km
Kilgarvan26419900%10 km
Clongeen26319500%11 km
Kilteel262000—5.7 km
Spanish Point2613658033%0.5 km
Freemount25718800%7.7 km
Kilmoganny25612300%8 km
Redcross25613700%8 km
…
Lahardane20017600%7.1 km

More pupils attend the schools around 220 of the other 224 towns than around Kilteel. Within 3 km, 17 of these 225 towns have a school teaching through Irish.

Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.

Neighbours

Schools in the towns around Kilteel

Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.

KillRathcooleJohnstownNewcastleBlessingtonSaggartKillRathcooleJohnstownNewcastleBlessingtonSaggartKilteel
TownSchoolsPupilsAll-IrishDEIS schoolsNearest post-primary
Kilteel000—5.7 km
Kill
4.6 km
277400%5.5 km
Rathcoole
6.1 km
115,37129%0.5 km
Johnstown
6.2 km
137,32210%3.3 km
Newcastle
7.3 km
115,40320%2.4 km
Blessington
7.3 km
61,71110%0.2 km
Saggart
7.5 km
239,161361%0.7 km

Saggart has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 3.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Which schools count. Every school in Kilteel 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 Kilteel

How many schools are there in Kilteel?

None in Kilteel or within 3 km of it; the nearest primary school is 4.1 km away.

Are there schools in Kilteel that teach through Irish?

None in Kilteel or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.

Is there a secondary school in Kilteel?

Not in Kilteel or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Holy Family Community School, 5.7 km away.

What is the best school in Kilteel?

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 Kilteel?

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).