Photo: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Clonaslee, 50% of schools get DEIS support, more than around Co. Laois’ towns or Irish towns
In the comparison, Clonaslee comes above both Co. Laois’ towns (15%) and Irish towns (35%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, Clonaslee College, has 236 pupils. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results 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.
The 2 schools in and around Clonaslee
Here are the schools in Clonaslee 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.
Where the 2 schools in and around Clonaslee 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 Clonaslee’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 Clonaslee
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 2 schools in and around Clonaslee teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Clonaslee’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Laois’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 Clonaslee | Co. Laois | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 35% | 22% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 2% | 6% |
| Girls | 41% | 49% | 49% |
More of the pupils around Clonaslee are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 35% against 27% (Co. Laois: 22%). Furthest from Ireland’s mix is the share of girls: 41% here against 49%. The biggest school in DEIS is Scoil Bhride (127 pupils).
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonaslee CollegePost-primary · ETB | 236 | 43% | ||
| Scoil BhridePrimary | 127 | 39% | ✓ |
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 Clonaslee’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
1 of Clonaslee’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Laois & Offaly ETB (1) and Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin (1). 1 of the 2 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.
How children get a place in Clonaslee
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
Since 2019/20, 1 of these 2 schools have grown by 5% or more and 0 have shrunk as much; across Ireland the number of 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.
Inspection reports for Clonaslee’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 2 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Clonaslee CollegePost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil BhridePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Clonaslee
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Clonaslee is Clonaslee College, an ETB school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonaslee CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 236 | 1.1 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Clonaslee beside the 215 other Irish towns of 400 to 800 people
Towns of a similar size, with the schools in or within 3 km of each; ordered by population, never ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crinkill | 795 | 7 | 1,708 | 1 | 86% | 3.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Kilcummin | 612 | 3 | 415 | 1 | 0% | 5.4 km |
| Ballyhooly | 610 | 1 | 167 | 0 | 0% | 7.9 km |
| Pallaskenry | 610 | 3 | 1,055 | 0 | 0% | 1 km |
| Conna | 609 | 1 | 149 | 0 | 0% | 13 km |
| Clonaslee | 608 | 2 | 363 | 0 | 50% | 1.1 km |
| Ballymurn | 607 | 2 | 207 | 0 | 0% | 6.7 km |
| Saleen | 601 | 2 | 653 | 0 | 0% | 4.6 km |
| Na Dúnaibh | 601 | 2 | 202 | 1 | 100% | 14 km |
| Freshford | 593 | 2 | 244 | 0 | 50% | 10 km |
| … | ||||||
| Oilgate | 401 | 2 | 152 | 0 | 100% | 6.2 km |
Of these 215 other towns, 76 count more pupils at their schools than Clonaslee. 18 of the 216 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Clonaslee
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 Clonaslee had 382 pupils in 2015/16 and 363 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Clonaslee
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 Clonaslee
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonaslee | 2 | 363 | 0 | 50% | 1.1 km |
| Kilcormac 13 km | 3 | 536 | 0 | 33% | 0.7 km |
| Mountmellick 14 km | 5 | 1,405 | 0 | 80% | 0.3 km |
| Tullamore 14 km | 14 | 4,273 | 1 | 43% | 0.4 km |
| Mountrath 17 km | 7 | 1,306 | 1 | 29% | 0.8 km |
Tullamore has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Clonaslee changed by +1%; among its neighbours, Kilcormac’s grew most (+24%) and Tullamore’s least (+1%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Clonaslee 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 Clonaslee
How many schools are there in Clonaslee?
In Clonaslee or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school and 1 secondary school, with 363 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Clonaslee that teach through Irish?
None in Clonaslee 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 Clonaslee?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Clonaslee?
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 Clonaslee?
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).