Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0DEIS support is less common around Termonfeckin: 0% of schools, below Co. Louth’s towns and Irish towns
Measured that way, Termonfeckin is below both Co. Louth’s towns (39%) and Irish towns (35%). Every one of its 2 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.
Counted from the Department of Education’s 2025/26 lists: every school in the town or within 3 km of it, against every school in Ireland.
What stands out about Termonfeckin’s schools
A wide choice at twelve
Families here can choose among 9 post-primary schools within 10 km of the town, of more than one kind; each admits on its own published policy, so applying to more than one is common. The nearest: Drogheda Grammar School (5.4 km), St. Joseph's C.B.S. (6 km) and Our Lady's College (6.1 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Termonfeckin 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 Termonfeckin’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 Termonfeckin’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Termonfeckin’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Archbishop of Armagh (2). None of the 2 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 Termonfeckin
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Termonfeckin teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Termonfeckin’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Louth’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Termonfeckin | Co. Louth | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 36% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 1% | 6% |
| Girls | 48% | 50% | 49% |
DEIS schools teach 0% of the pupils around Termonfeckin, a smaller share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Louth: 36%). The biggest difference from Ireland is in pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here, 6% there.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil Náisíunta Naomh FeichínPrimary | 307 | 48% | ||
| S.N. Muire Gan SmalPrimary | 201 | 48% |
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.
How children get a place in Termonfeckin
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
1 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 1 have shrunk by as much, out of 2; 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.
The 2 schools in and around Termonfeckin
Every school in Termonfeckin or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Ireland publishes no school-by-school results, which is why these cards have no letters.
Inspection reports for Termonfeckin’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
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.
The reports describe what inspectors saw and what each school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the 2 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Scoil Náisíunta Naomh FeichínPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Muire Gan SmalPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Termonfeckin
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
Within 10 km of Termonfeckin there are 9 post-primary schools: 6 voluntary secondary schools, 2 ETB schools and one community school. Of these, 3 are single-sex: 2 for girls and 1 for boys. One of them charges fees. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drogheda Grammar SchoolVoluntary secondary · Quaker | Girls and boys | Fee-paying | 557 | 5.4 km |
| St. Joseph's C.B.S.Voluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 1,128 | 6 km |
| Our Lady's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 965 | 6.1 km |
| Ballymakenny CollegeCommunity school · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 998 | 6.2 km |
| Laytown & Drogheda Educate Together Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 520 | 6.3 km |
| Sacred Heart Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 717 | 7.6 km |
| Colaiste na hInseETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,021 | 7.9 km |
| St Mary's Diocesan SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 917 | 8 km |
| St Oliver's Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 1,422 | 9.1 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Termonfeckin
No special school is in or near Termonfeckin. 2 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.
Termonfeckin beside the 90 other Irish towns of 1,400 to 2,700 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Callan | 2,678 | 2 | 1,112 | 0 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Mountrath | 2,070 | 7 | 1,306 | 1 | 29% | 0.8 km |
| Bunclody | 2,053 | 5 | 1,912 | 0 | 40% | 0.5 km |
| Templemore | 2,005 | 5 | 973 | 0 | 60% | 0.3 km |
| Enniskerry | 2,000 | 10 | 2,487 | 0 | 20% | 2.9 km |
| Termonfeckin | 1,983 | 2 | 508 | 0 | 0% | 5.4 km |
| Strandhill | 1,982 | 1 | 252 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Cloyne | 1,967 | 2 | 653 | 0 | 0% | 5.8 km |
| Dunmanway | 1,964 | 5 | 1,019 | 0 | 0% | 0.8 km |
| Rathcormac | 1,957 | 3 | 715 | 0 | 0% | 6.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Stradbally | 1,404 | 2 | 375 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
Of the other 90 towns, 65 have more pupils at the schools around them than Termonfeckin. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 15 of the 91.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Termonfeckin
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 Termonfeckin had 549 pupils in 2015/16 and 508 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Termonfeckin
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 Termonfeckin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Termonfeckin | 2 | 508 | 0 | 0% | 5.4 km |
| Clogherhead 3.6 km | 2 | 568 | 0 | 0% | 9.1 km |
| Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney 6.8 km | 11 | 5,783 | 1 | 0% | 1.4 km |
| Drogheda 7.5 km | 29 | 14,360 | 2 | 28% | 0.5 km |
| Tullyallen 10 km | 1 | 411 | 0 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| Dunleer 11 km | 5 | 1,205 | 0 | 20% | 0.8 km |
| Stamullen 15 km | 3 | 1,043 | 0 | 0% | 2.1 km |
Drogheda has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Pupils around Termonfeckin: −5% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Dunleer led (+11%) and Stamullen trailed (−20%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Termonfeckin 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 Termonfeckin
How many schools are there in Termonfeckin?
In Termonfeckin or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 508 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Termonfeckin that teach through Irish?
None in Termonfeckin or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Termonfeckin?
Not in Termonfeckin or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Drogheda Grammar School, 5.4 km away.
What is the best school in Termonfeckin?
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 Termonfeckin?
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).