Photo: C O'Flanagan · CC BY-SA 2.0No secondary school in or near Duleek: the nearest is 6.8 km away
50% of the schools around Duleek are DEIS schools, above both Co. Meath’s towns (0%) and Irish towns (35%). DEIS, the extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas, reaches 2 of its 4 schools; across Ireland, 30%. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
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.
What stands out about Duleek’s schools
Extra support for many schools
Many schools here are in DEIS, which gives schools in disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and help; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. In DEIS: S.N. Bheinin Naofa C (343) and S.N. Bheinn Naofa B (339). Who runs them ↓
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 Oliver's Community College (6.7 km), St Mary's Diocesan School (7.4 km) and Sacred Heart Secondary School (7.8 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 4 schools in and around Duleek 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 Duleek’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 Duleek’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
4 of Duleek’s 4 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Meath (4). 2 of the 4 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Duleek
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 4 schools in and around Duleek teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Duleek’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Meath’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Duleek | Co. Meath | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 71% | 14% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 5% | 6% |
| Girls | 48% | 49% | 49% |
Around Duleek, 71% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 14% in Co. Meath. The biggest difference from Ireland is in pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here, 6% there. Of the DEIS schools here, S.N. Bheinin Naofa C is the biggest: 343 pupils.
Each of the 4 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Bheinin Naofa CPrimary | 343 | 100% | ✓ | |
| S.N. Bheinn Naofa BPrimary | 339 | 0% | ✓ | |
| S.N. Naomh ColmcillePrimary | 109 | 44% | ||
| S.N. Dun UabhairPrimary | 166 | 44% |
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 Duleek’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
One patron, Bishop of Meath, runs every school around Duleek.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of MeathS.N. Bheinin Naofa C, S.N. Bheinn Naofa B, S.N. Dun Uabhair, S.N. Naomh Colmcille | Catholic | 4 | 957 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Duleek
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, 0 of these 4 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.
The 4 schools in and around Duleek
Here are the schools in Duleek 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 Duleek’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, 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 4 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. Bheinin Naofa CPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Bheinn Naofa BPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Naomh ColmcillePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Dun UabhairPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Duleek
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
7 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Duleek: 5 voluntary secondary schools, one ETB school and one community school. Of these, 3 are single-sex: 2 for girls and 1 for boys. 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 | 6.7 km |
| St Mary's Diocesan SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 917 | 7.4 km |
| Sacred Heart Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 717 | 7.8 km |
| Our Lady's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 965 | 9.3 km |
| St. Joseph's C.B.S.Voluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 1,128 | 9.4 km |
| Ballymakenny CollegeCommunity school · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 998 | 9.5 km |
| Laytown & Drogheda Educate Together Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 520 | 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 Duleek
No special school is in or near Duleek. 3 of the 4 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.
Duleek beside the 100 other Irish towns of 3,400 to 6,600 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballinasloe | 6,597 | 6 | 2,019 | 1 | 50% | 1.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Glounthaune | 5,000 | 32 | 10,210 | 4 | 19% | 3.7 km |
| Woodquay and Nuns Island | 4,948 | 33 | 11,452 | 5 | 33% | 0.2 km |
| Fair Hill | 4,910 | 58 | 17,368 | 5 | 55% | 0.4 km |
| Mountmellick | 4,905 | 5 | 1,405 | 0 | 80% | 0.3 km |
| Duleek | 4,899 | 4 | 957 | 0 | 50% | 6.8 km |
| Poleberry | 4,875 | 29 | 11,782 | 1 | 45% | 0.4 km |
| Chapelizod | 4,862 | 154 | 44,846 | 5 | 58% | 0.7 km |
| Cashel | 4,805 | 6 | 1,837 | 0 | 33% | 0.6 km |
| Tramore | 4,803 | 75 | 22,562 | 7 | 48% | 0.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Clara | 3,403 | 3 | 699 | 0 | 100% | 0.3 km |
Of the other 100 towns, 97 have more pupils at the schools around them than Duleek. 78 of the 101 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Duleek
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 Duleek had 1,007 pupils in 2015/16 and 957 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Duleek
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 Duleek
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duleek | 4 | 957 | 0 | 50% | 6.8 km |
| Kentstown 7.9 km | 1 | 214 | 0 | 0% | 8.1 km |
| Drogheda 7.9 km | 29 | 14,360 | 2 | 28% | 0.5 km |
| Tullyallen 9 km | 1 | 411 | 0 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| Slane 9.7 km | 1 | 254 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
| Stamullen 11 km | 3 | 1,043 | 0 | 0% | 2.1 km |
| Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney 12 km | 11 | 5,783 | 1 | 0% | 1.4 km |
Drogheda has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. The roll around Duleek moved −8% since 2019/20; nearby, Drogheda grew most (+7%) and Stamullen least (−20%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Duleek 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 Duleek
How many schools are there in Duleek?
In Duleek or within 3 km of it: 4 primary schools, with 957 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Duleek that teach through Irish?
None in Duleek or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Duleek?
Not in Duleek or within 3 km of it; the nearest is St Oliver's Community College, 6.8 km away.
What is the best school in Duleek?
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 Duleek?
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).