Photo: Andreas F. Borchert · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer single-sex secondaries around Monasterevin than around Co. Kildare’s towns or Irish towns: 0%
For Monasterevin, that is below both Co. Kildare’s towns (23%) and Irish towns (39%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, St Pauls Secondary School, has 843 pupils. Nothing here grades or ranks these schools: Ireland publishes no results school by school, 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.
What stands out about Monasterevin’s schools
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 ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Pupil numbers around Monasterevin
Pupils every September at the schools in or within 3 km of the town, each counted at today’s site.
The schools in and around Monasterevin had 1,096 pupils in 2015/16 and 1,605 in 2025/26. St Pauls Secondary School grew most: +68% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Monasterevin
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 5 schools in and around Monasterevin
Here are the schools in Monasterevin or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. Ireland publishes no school-by-school results, which is why these cards have no letters.
Where the 5 schools in and around Monasterevin 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 Monasterevin’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 Monasterevin
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 5 schools in and around Monasterevin teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Monasterevin’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.
DEIS by stage: pupils at DEIS schools
| Share of pupils | Around Monasterevin | Co. Kildare | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 53% | 17% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 6% | 6% |
| Girls | 49% | 49% | 49% |
More of the pupils around Monasterevin are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 53% against 27% (Co. Kildare: 17%). Furthest from Ireland’s mix is the share of pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here against 6%. The biggest school in DEIS is St Pauls Secondary School (843 pupils).
Each of the 5 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monasterevan ConventPrimary | 377 | 79% | ||
| Scoil Naisiunta Naomh PheadarPrimary | 239 | 0% | ||
| St. John's National SchoolPrimary | 45 | 49% | ||
| St Pauls Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 843 | 50% | ✓ | |
| S.N. BridePrimary | 101 | 47% |
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 Monasterevin’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
4 of Monasterevin’s 5 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin (4) and Bishop of Meath & Kildare COI (1). 1 of the 5 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.
The 2 patrons of Monasterevin’s schools
Patrons own the schools and set their ethos; boards of management run them day to day.
Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin is patron of 4 of the 5 schools around Monasterevin, which teach 97% of their pupils; 2 patrons run them in all.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of Kildare & LeighlinSt Pauls, Monasterevan Convent, Scoil Naisiunta Naomh Pheadar, S.N. Bride | Catholic | 4 | 1,560 |
| Bishop of Meath & Kildare COISt. John's | Church of Ireland | 1 | 45 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Monasterevin
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
2 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 1 have shrunk by as much, out of 5; 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 Monasterevin’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
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 5 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Monasterevan ConventPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil Naisiunta Naomh PheadarPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St. John's National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Pauls Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. BridePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Monasterevin
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Within 10 km of Monasterevin there are 3 post-primary schools: one voluntary secondary school, one ETB 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 | 0.7 km |
| Ardscoil Rath IomgháinETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 751 | 9.4 km |
| Kildare Town Community SchoolCommunity school · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,014 | 9.9 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Monasterevin
No special school is in or near Monasterevin. 1 of the 4 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.
Monasterevin beside the 99 other Irish towns of 3,700 to 7,200 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Gate | 7,185 | 75 | 23,775 | 7 | 47% | 0.3 km |
| … | ||||||
| Galvone | 5,412 | 48 | 16,815 | 5 | 46% | 0.6 km |
| Ballybofey-Stranorlar | 5,406 | 7 | 2,400 | 0 | 57% | 0.6 km |
| Tipperary | 5,387 | 8 | 2,079 | 1 | 75% | 0.4 km |
| St Stephen's Green | 5,319 | 127 | 33,381 | 9 | 47% | 0 km |
| Monasterevin | 5,307 | 5 | 1,605 | 0 | 20% | 0.7 km |
| Inchicore | 5,285 | 76 | 21,071 | 3 | 59% | 0.7 km |
| Ballyboden | 5,246 | 73 | 26,593 | 7 | 21% | 0.3 km |
| Knockrea | 5,228 | 84 | 24,668 | 9 | 49% | 0.3 km |
| Ballybeg | 5,226 | 32 | 12,349 | 1 | 41% | 1.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Cork City Centre | 3,701 | 77 | 23,441 | 7 | 48% | 0.5 km |
Of these 99 other towns, 88 count more pupils at their schools than Monasterevin. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 80 of the 100.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Monasterevin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monasterevin | 5 | 1,605 | 0 | 20% | 0.7 km |
| Portarlington 8.9 km | 5 | 2,657 | 0 | 0% | 1.3 km |
| Rathangan 10 km | 3 | 1,345 | 0 | 33% | 0.6 km |
| Kildare 10 km | 4 | 2,671 | 1 | 25% | 1.2 km |
| Curragh Camp 14 km | 8 | 1,733 | 1 | 38% | 1.2 km |
| Stradbally 15 km | 2 | 375 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
| Newbridge 17 km | 18 | 7,450 | 1 | 33% | 0.4 km |
Kildare has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Pupils around Monasterevin: +24% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Stradbally led (+24%) and Portarlington trailed (−3%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Monasterevin 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 Monasterevin
How many schools are there in Monasterevin?
In Monasterevin or within 3 km of it: 4 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 1,605 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Monasterevin that teach through Irish?
None in Monasterevin 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 Monasterevin?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Monasterevin?
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 Monasterevin?
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).