Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0The schools around Tullyallen have fewer pupils than in 2019/20: −17%, below Co. Louth’s towns and Irish towns
That puts Tullyallen below both Co. Louth’s towns (+9%) and Irish towns (+4%). S.N. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
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 Tullyallen’s schools
Fewer pupils than before
Pupil numbers at the schools here have fallen since 2019/20, against +5% across Ireland. Pupils over time ↓
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: St Oliver's Community College (3.7 km), Ballymakenny College (4.7 km) and St Mary's Diocesan School (5.6 km). Post-primary choices ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Where the school in or near Tullyallen is
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 Tullyallen’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.
Pupil numbers around Tullyallen
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 Tullyallen had 454 pupils in 2015/16 and 411 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Tullyallen
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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Tullyallen
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 1 schools in and around Tullyallen teaches every subject through Irish.
Who runs Tullyallen’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
1 of Tullyallen’s 1 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Archbishop of Armagh (1). None of the 1 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.
How children get a place in Tullyallen
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.
The school in and around Tullyallen
Each school in or within 3 km of Tullyallen links to a page of its own. Ireland doesn’t publish results for individual schools, so none of these carries a letter.
Inspection reports for Tullyallen’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
The Inspectorate inspects schools in several ways: a whole-school evaluation covers teaching, learning and how the school is led; a subject inspection looks at one subject; a follow-through checks on earlier advice. Reports go on gov.ie with the school’s reply.
Reports say what inspectors found and what should improve, without an overall grade, so none appears here; the link below opens the school’s own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. Tulach AluinnPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Tullyallen
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Within 10 km of Tullyallen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Oliver's Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 1,422 | 3.7 km |
| Ballymakenny CollegeCommunity school · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 998 | 4.7 km |
| St Mary's Diocesan SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 917 | 5.6 km |
| Sacred Heart Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 717 | 5.7 km |
| St. Joseph's C.B.S.Voluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 1,128 | 5.8 km |
| Our Lady's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 965 | 6.2 km |
| Drogheda Grammar SchoolVoluntary secondary · Quaker | Girls and boys | Fee-paying | 557 | 7.7 km |
| Laytown & Drogheda Educate Together Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 520 | 8.4 km |
| Scoil Ui MhuiriETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 644 | 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 Tullyallen
No special school is in or near Tullyallen. 1 of the 1 primary schools has 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.
Tullyallen beside the 109 other Irish towns of 1,200 to 2,300 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balrothery | 2,282 | 16 | 7,860 | 2 | 31% | 1.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Millstreet | 1,722 | 4 | 703 | 0 | 0% | 0.9 km |
| Ballymahon | 1,714 | 5 | 1,663 | 0 | 40% | 0.3 km |
| Ballymote | 1,711 | 3 | 694 | 0 | 67% | 0.5 km |
| Convoy | 1,702 | 4 | 1,290 | 0 | 75% | 4 km |
| Tullyallen | 1,697 | 1 | 411 | 0 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| Portumna | 1,690 | 2 | 741 | 0 | 50% | 0.2 km |
| Castledermot | 1,685 | 2 | 678 | 0 | 0% | 0.3 km |
| Allenwood | 1,685 | 4 | 802 | 0 | 0% | 7.2 km |
| Longwood | 1,685 | 2 | 818 | 0 | 50% | 0.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Clonee | 1,205 | 25 | 12,320 | 2 | 28% | 1.3 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 84 of the other 109 towns than around Tullyallen. Within 3 km, 16 of these 110 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Tullyallen
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tullyallen | 1 | 411 | 0 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| Drogheda 5.3 km | 29 | 14,360 | 2 | 28% | 0.5 km |
| Slane 8.9 km | 1 | 254 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
| Duleek 9 km | 4 | 957 | 0 | 50% | 6.8 km |
| Dunleer 10 km | 5 | 1,205 | 0 | 20% | 0.8 km |
| Termonfeckin 10 km | 2 | 508 | 0 | 0% | 5.4 km |
| Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney 11 km | 11 | 5,783 | 1 | 0% | 1.4 km |
Drogheda has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Tullyallen changed by −17%; among its neighbours, Dunleer’s grew most (+11%) and Slane’s least (−9%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Tullyallen 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 Tullyallen
How many schools are there in Tullyallen?
In Tullyallen or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school, with 411 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Tullyallen that teach through Irish?
None in Tullyallen or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Tullyallen?
Not in Tullyallen or within 3 km of it; the nearest is St Oliver's Community College, 3.7 km away.
What is the best school in Tullyallen?
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 Tullyallen?
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).