Photo: Epzcaw · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer single-sex secondaries around Hospital than around Co. Limerick’s towns or Irish towns: 0%
That puts Hospital below both Co. Limerick’s towns (54%) and Irish towns (39%). John The Baptist Community School, with 960 pupils, is the only secondary school within 3 km. 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.
The 3 schools in and around Hospital
Every school in Hospital or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. No letters and no results: Ireland publishes none school by school.
Where the 3 schools in and around Hospital 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 Hospital’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 Hospital
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 3 schools in and around Hospital teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Hospital’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Limerick’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 Hospital | Co. Limerick | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 25% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 7% | 6% |
| Girls | 48% | 48% | 49% |
Fewer of the pupils around Hospital are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 0% against 27% (Co. Limerick: 25%). Furthest from Ireland’s mix is the share of pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here against 6%.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John The Baptist Community SchoolPost-primary · Community school | 960 | 49% | ||
| Hospital N.S.Primary | 156 | 38% | ||
| Scoil Nais Cnoc AinePrimary | 200 | 49% |
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 Hospital’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
2 of Hospital’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Archbishop of Cashel & Emly (2) and Limerick & Clare ETB & Archbishop of Cashel & Emly (1). 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.
The 2 patrons of Hospital’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
2 patrons run the 3 schools around Hospital; the largest, Archbishop of Cashel & Emly, has 2 of them and 27% of the pupils. An Education and Training Board runs one of them.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop of Cashel & EmlyScoil Nais Cnoc Aine, Hospital | Catholic | 2 | 356 |
| Limerick & Clare ETB & Archbishop of Cashel & EmlyJohn The Baptist | Inter-denominational | 1 | 960 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Hospital
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 3 schools have grown by 5% or more and 2 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 Hospital’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 3 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| John The Baptist Community SchoolPost-primary · Community school | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Hospital N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil Nais Cnoc AinePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Hospital
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 Hospital is John The Baptist Community School, a community school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John The Baptist Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 960 | 0.1 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Hospital
No special school is in or near Hospital. 1 of the 2 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.
Hospital beside the 169 other Irish towns of 500 to 900 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cratloe | 899 | 1 | 278 | 0 | 0% | 6.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ballymore Eustace | 689 | 1 | 216 | 0 | 0% | 6.4 km |
| Naul | 684 | 1 | 163 | 0 | 0% | 5.8 km |
| Churchtown | 684 | 1 | 103 | 0 | 0% | 5.1 km |
| Johnstownbridge | 677 | 5 | 1,442 | 0 | 0% | 3.3 km |
| Hospital | 674 | 3 | 1,316 | 0 | 0% | 0.1 km |
| Kilmacow | 671 | 1 | 176 | 0 | 0% | 5.2 km |
| Schull | 669 | 2 | 510 | 0 | 0% | 0.8 km |
| Tallanstown | 668 | 2 | 457 | 0 | 0% | 7.8 km |
| Cappamore | 668 | 2 | 161 | 0 | 50% | 6.3 km |
| … | ||||||
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
Of the other 169 towns, 14 have more pupils at the schools around them than Hospital. 15 of the 170 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Hospital
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 Hospital had 1,285 pupils in 2015/16 and 1,316 in 2025/26. Scoil Nais Cnoc Aine grew most: +31% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Hospital
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 Hospital
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital | 3 | 1,316 | 0 | 0% | 0.1 km |
| Kilmallock 13 km | 2 | 786 | 0 | 100% | 0.3 km |
| Caherconlish 14 km | 3 | 470 | 0 | 0% | 9.1 km |
| Tipperary 19 km | 8 | 2,079 | 1 | 75% | 0.4 km |
Tipperary has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Of Hospital’s neighbours, Tipperary saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+20%) and Caherconlish the least (−8%); Hospital itself: −8%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Hospital 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 Hospital
How many schools are there in Hospital?
In Hospital or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 1,316 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Hospital that teach through Irish?
None in Hospital 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 Hospital?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Hospital?
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 Hospital?
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).