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Confey Community College

Post-primary · ETBInter-denominational

Confey, Leixlip, Co Kildare · W23 VH66 · Roll number 70691C

Confey Community College is one of 8 post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Leixlip. Every school in and around Leixlip →

Pupils
934
September, 2025/26
459 girls, 475 boys
Since 2019/20
+22%
from 763 pupils
Ireland: +5%
Ethos
Inter-denominational
Patron: Kildare & Wicklow ETB
Language
English
outside the Gaeltacht
Results
Not published
none school by school (Education Act 1998, s.53)
The gist

What stands out about Confey Community College

  • One of the larger post-primary schools: 934 pupils, against a typical 585.
  • Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
  • Growing: 934 pupils, 22% more than the 763 of 2019/20.
  • An ETB school: run by the county’s Education and Training Board.
  • Its patron is the Kildare & Wicklow ETB; its ethos is inter-denominational.

Pupils over time

2015/16 to 2025/26

Confey Community College had 934 pupils in 2025/26, against 763 in 2015/16 (+22%). Girls are 49% of them. Its roll rose in 7 of the 10 years.

03006009001,2002015/162018/192021/222025/26PupilsGirls

Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.

No letter

No letter for Confey Community College

Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing schools by them, so this school has no letter and nothing here ranks it. Its facts are the Department of Education’s; its inspection reports are linked below.

What the Department of Education does publish for Confey Community College is on this page: its pupils each September since 2015/16, girls and boys, its patron and ethos, whether it teaches through Irish, whether it is in DEIS, and its inspection reports.

Newspapers print lists of how many of a school’s leavers go on to college. Those count destinations, not exam results, and depend on who a school takes in; we don’t use them.

Inspections

Inspection reports on Confey Community College

The Department of Education’s Inspectorate visits schools and publishes its reports. The reports describe what inspectors saw; they give no overall grade, and we don’t make one. Reports for this school on gov.ie ↗

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.

Getting in

Getting a place at Confey Community College

Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.

Families apply to Confey Community College directly, usually in the year before their child finishes sixth class; the school’s yearly admission notice gives the dates for applying and for its decisions.

A school with more applicants than places admits on the criteria in its admission policy, often brothers and sisters, the area it serves and, for post-primary schools, its feeder primaries. A family refused a place can appeal.

Pupils
934
September, 2025/26
Since 2019/20
+22%
from 763 pupils

No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Confey Community College has grown by 22% since 2019/20. All the schools around Leixlip together changed by +6%.

Pupils since 2019/20

Confey+22%
The post-primary schools around Leixlip+18%
All Irish post-primary schools+15%

Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; Department of Education enrolments 2019/20 and 2025/26 (preliminary).

Side by side with the nearest post-primary schools

2025/26

The nearest schools of the same kind, as the crow flies: their pupils, ethos and language. No results: none are published.

Confey Community College has more pupils than any of the 6 nearest post-primary schools. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by +22%; 3 of the 5 grew faster.

Confey934
Coláiste Chiaráin676
Celbridge712
Salesian College880
Eriu193
Hansfield ETSS867
St Joseph's College934
SchoolPupilsSince 2019/20EthosLanguageDEISAway
Confey Community College934+22%Inter-denominationalEnglish
Coláiste Chiaráin676+10%Inter-denominationalEnglish1 km
Celbridge Community School712+32%Multi-denominationalEnglish3.7 km
Salesian College880+25%CatholicEnglish3.9 km
Eriu Community College193–Multi-denominationalEnglish3.9 km
Hansfield ETSS867+34%Multi-denominationalEnglish4 km
St Joseph's College934+6%CatholicEnglish4.2 km
The other 25 post-primary schools in Co. Kildare
SchoolPupilsSince 2019/20EthosLanguageDEISAway
St Wolstan's Community School846+17%Inter-denominationalEnglish6.1 km
Gaelcholáiste Mhaigh Nuad154–Multi-denominationalAll in Irish6.4 km
Maynooth Post Primary School1,018+5%Multi-denominationalEnglish6.6 km
Maynooth Community College1,013+66%Multi-denominationalEnglish6.9 km
Scoil Dara828−10%CatholicEnglish12 km
Clongowes Wood College421−6%CatholicEnglish14 km
Scoil Mhuire Community School1,189+3%Inter-denominationalEnglish16 km
St Farnan's Post Primary School676+50%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓19 km
Naas Community College928+95%Multi-denominationalEnglish20 km
Coláiste Naomh Mhuire1,076+3%CatholicEnglish20 km
Meánscoil Iognáid Ris1,013+0%CatholicEnglish21 km
Gaelcholáiste Chill Dara401+8%CatholicAll in Irish21 km
Piper's Hill College1,049+12%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓23 km
Newbridge College923+4%CatholicEnglish28 km
Holy Family Secondary School789+11%CatholicEnglish29 km
Patrician Secondary School932+5%CatholicEnglish29 km
St Conleth's Community College752+37%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓29 km
Cross And Passion College843+1%CatholicEnglish32 km
Curragh Community College288+112%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓34 km
Kildare Town Community School1,014+10%Multi-denominationalEnglish36 km
Ardscoil Rath Iomgháin751+8%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓37 km
St Pauls Secondary School843+68%CatholicEnglish✓45 km
Athy Community College646+51%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓53 km
Árdscoil na Trionóide894+4%CatholicEnglish53 km
Colaiste Lorcain334−18%Inter-denominationalEnglish56 km
Living nearby

Living in Leixlip

The town’s figures, not this street’s.

Median sale price
€495,000
721 sales, 2023–25, Property Price Register
Average rent
€1,867
a month, new tenancies in 2025

Homes in the W23 Eircode area

Housing in Leixlip →

The median sale price rose from €450,000 in 2023 to €485,000 in 2025 (+8%).

2023€450,000
2024€445,000
2025€485,000

New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025

New homes€484,700
Second-hand homes€422,900

Property Price Register sales in the W23 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.

New tenancies in Leixlip averaged €1,867 a month in 2025, against €1,717 in 2024 (+9%).

2024€1,717
2025€1,867

Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.

Leixlip, W23 VH66

Nearby

Post-primary schools near Confey Community College

Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.

Questions about Confey Community College

Is Confey Community College a good school?

We don’t grade it: Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them. Its inspection reports on gov.ie, a visit and a talk with the principal will tell you more than any table could.

How many pupils does Confey Community College have?

934 pupils in 2025/26. That is +22% since 2019/20.

Does Confey Community College teach through Irish?

No: Confey Community College teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.

Who runs Confey Community College?

Confey Community College has a inter-denominational ethos. Its patron is Kildare & Wicklow ETB.

How do pupils get a place at Confey Community College?

Apply to the school directly. It publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice with its dates; if more children apply than it has places, it admits on the criteria in its policy.

Which schools of the same kind are near Confey Community College?

The nearest are Coláiste Chiaráin (1 km), Celbridge Community School (3.7 km) and Salesian College (3.9 km).

Sources: Department of Education, school lists 2025/26 (preliminary) and enrolments since 2015/16, CC BY 4.0 · inspection reports on gov.ie, linked by roll number. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).

Facts from the Department of Education’s school lists. Listed with Leixlip; nothing here rates the school.

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).