Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0No secondary school in or near Robertstown: the nearest is 4.8 km away
Every subject is taught through Irish at 0% of the schools around Robertstown, below both Co. Kildare’s towns (6%) and Irish towns (8%). Every one of its 3 schools within 3 km has a Catholic ethos. Nothing here grades or ranks these schools: Ireland publishes no results school by school, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
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 about Robertstown’s schools
A wide choice at twelve
7 post-primary schools lie within 10 km, so families here have a real choice at twelve; each admits on its own policy. The nearest: St Farnan's Post Primary School (4.8 km), Scoil Mhuire Community School (8.4 km) and Newbridge College (9.4 km). Post-primary choices ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Where the 3 schools in and around Robertstown 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 Robertstown’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.
Who runs Robertstown’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Robertstown’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin (3). None of the 3 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Robertstown
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 3 schools in and around Robertstown teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Robertstown’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, 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 Robertstown | Co. Kildare | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 17% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 6% | 6% |
| Girls | 47% | 49% | 49% |
0% of the pupils around Robertstown are at a DEIS school, fewer than the 27% across Ireland (17% in Co. Kildare). Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Baile RoibeairdPrimary | 173 | 52% | ||
| S.N. Coill DubhPrimary | 182 | 43% | ||
| Scoil Mhuire Allenwood National SchoolPrimary | 263 | 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.
One patron for Robertstown’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin is patron of every school around Robertstown.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of Kildare & LeighlinScoil Mhuire Allenwood, S.N. Coill Dubh, S.N. Baile Roibeaird | Catholic | 3 | 618 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Robertstown
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
Of these 3 schools, 1 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 1 have lost as much; Ireland’s pupils changed by +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.
The 3 schools in and around Robertstown
Here are the schools in Robertstown or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. Ireland publishes no results school by school, so these cards carry no letters or results.
Inspection reports for Robertstown’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
Each school is visited by inspectors from time to time, for a whole-school evaluation of teaching, learning and leadership, for one subject, or to follow up earlier advice, and every report is posted on gov.ie with the school’s response.
The reports describe what inspectors saw and what each school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the 3 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. Baile RoibeairdPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Coill DubhPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil Mhuire Allenwood National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Robertstown
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
Families in Robertstown have 7 post-primary schools within 10 km: 4 voluntary secondary schools, 2 ETB schools and one community school. 3 teach girls and boys apart: 1 girls’ and 2 boys’ schools. Fees are charged at 2 of them. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Farnan's Post Primary SchoolETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 676 | 4.8 km |
| Scoil Mhuire Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,189 | 8.4 km |
| Newbridge CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | Fee-paying | 923 | 9.4 km |
| Patrician Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 932 | 9.8 km |
| Clongowes Wood CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | Fee-paying, Boarding | 421 | 9.9 km |
| St Conleth's Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 752 | 10 km |
| Holy Family Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 789 | 10 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Robertstown
No special school is in or near Robertstown. 2 of the 3 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.
Robertstown beside the 187 other Irish towns of 500 to 1,000 people
Schools in or within 3 km of each town, by population; none is ranked, as Ireland publishes no results
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castletownbere | 999 | 3 | 524 | 0 | 67% | 0.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Omeath | 778 | 2 | 136 | 0 | 50% | 11 km |
| Cappoquin | 778 | 1 | 189 | 0 | 100% | 6.6 km |
| Mountbellew | 774 | 5 | 1,503 | 0 | 0% | 1 km |
| Riverstick | 772 | 1 | 363 | 0 | 0% | 7.7 km |
| Robertstown | 771 | 3 | 618 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
| Ardfert | 771 | 1 | 215 | 0 | 0% | 5.8 km |
| Donore | 767 | 4 | 2,427 | 0 | 75% | 3.7 km |
| Ballineen-Enniskean | 766 | 2 | 207 | 0 | 0% | 13 km |
| Rathmore | 766 | 3 | 627 | 0 | 0% | 2.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
Among the 187 other towns, 41 have more pupils at their schools than Robertstown does. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 16 of the 188.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Robertstown
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 Robertstown had 521 pupils in 2015/16 and 618 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Robertstown
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 Robertstown
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robertstown | 3 | 618 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
| Coill Dubh (Blackwood) 2.4 km | 4 | 708 | 0 | 0% | 4.7 km |
| Kilmeage 2.6 km | 2 | 357 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Allenwood 3 km | 4 | 802 | 0 | 0% | 7.2 km |
| Prosperous 4.7 km | 2 | 1,169 | 0 | 50% | 0.5 km |
| Carragh 7.2 km | 2 | 1,383 | 0 | 0% | 3.5 km |
| Clane 9.1 km | 7 | 3,836 | 0 | 14% | 0.7 km |
Since 2019/20 the pupils around Robertstown changed by −2%; among its neighbours, Carragh’s grew most (+43%) and Kilmeage’s least (−17%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Robertstown 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 Robertstown
How many schools are there in Robertstown?
In Robertstown or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, with 618 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Robertstown that teach through Irish?
None in Robertstown or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Robertstown?
Not in Robertstown or within 3 km of it; the nearest is St Farnan's Post Primary School, 4.8 km away.
What is the best school in Robertstown?
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 Robertstown?
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).