Photo: Fred Logue · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Julianstown, only 0% of schools teach through Irish, fewer than around Co. Meath’s towns or Irish towns
Measured that way, Julianstown is below both Co. Meath’s towns (8%) and Irish towns (8%). Colaiste na hInse, with 1,021 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.
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 Julianstown’s schools
A wide choice at twelve
Families here can choose among 15 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: Colaiste na hInse (3.7 km), Franciscan College (4.4 km) and Laytown & Drogheda Educate Together Secondary School (5 km). Post-primary choices ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
The 4 schools in and around Julianstown
Every school in Julianstown or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Ireland publishes no results school by school, so these cards carry no letters or results.
Where the 4 schools in and around Julianstown 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 Julianstown’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 Julianstown
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 4 schools in and around Julianstown teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Julianstown’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Meath’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 Julianstown | Co. Meath | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 14% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 5% | 6% |
| Girls | 46% | 49% | 49% |
Fewer of the pupils around Julianstown are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 0% against 27% (Co. Meath: 14%). Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%.
Each of the 4 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Cros BanPrimary | 373 | 47% | ||
| Scoil an Spioraid NaoimhPrimary | 438 | 47% | ||
| Scoil Oilibheir NaofaPrimary | 397 | 44% | ||
| Colaiste na hInsePost-primary · ETB | 1,021 | 46% |
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 Julianstown’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Julianstown’s 4 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Meath (3) and Louth & Meath ETB (1). None of the 4 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 Julianstown’s schools
Patrons own the schools and set their ethos; boards of management run them day to day.
The schools around Julianstown answer to 2 patrons, and Bishop of Meath leads with 3 of the 4 schools and 54% of their pupils. The local Education and Training Board runs one.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of MeathScoil an Spioraid Naoimh, Scoil Oilibheir Naofa, S.N. Cros Ban | Catholic | 3 | 1,208 |
| Louth & Meath ETBColaiste na hInse | Multi-denominational | 1 | 1,021 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Julianstown
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
0 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 3 have shrunk by as much, out of 4; 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.
Inspection reports for Julianstown’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 4 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. Cros BanPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil an Spioraid NaoimhPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil Oilibheir NaofaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Colaiste na hInsePost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Julianstown
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
15 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Julianstown: 10 voluntary secondary schools, 4 ETB schools and one community school. 4 teach girls and boys apart: 3 girls’ and 1 boys’ schools. One of them charges fees. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colaiste na hInseETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,021 | 3.7 km |
| Franciscan CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 321 | 4.4 km |
| Laytown & Drogheda Educate Together Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 520 | 5 km |
| Drogheda Grammar SchoolVoluntary secondary · Quaker | Girls and boys | Fee-paying | 557 | 6.2 km |
| St Mary's Diocesan SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 917 | 6.6 km |
| Sacred Heart Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 717 | 6.6 km |
| Our Lady's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 965 | 6.9 km |
| St. Joseph's C.B.S.Voluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 1,128 | 7.4 km |
| Coláiste Ghlór na MaraVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 520 | 8 km |
| Bremore Educate Together Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 824 | 8.3 km |
| Balbriggan Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 686 | 8.5 km |
| Ballymakenny CollegeCommunity school · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 998 | 8.5 km |
All 15 post-primary schools within reach
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Oliver's Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 1,422 | 8.5 km |
| Loreto Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 1,220 | 8.5 km |
| Ardgillan Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,014 | 9.7 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Julianstown
No special school is in or near Julianstown. 3 of the 3 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.
Julianstown beside the 169 other Irish towns of 500 to 900 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cratloe | 899 | 1 | 278 | 0 | 0% | 6.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Delvin | 714 | 3 | 163 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Shinrone | 707 | 1 | 121 | 0 | 100% | 5.5 km |
| Borris | 702 | 2 | 754 | 0 | 0% | 1.5 km |
| Clonmellon | 702 | 1 | 178 | 0 | 0% | 8.2 km |
| Julianstown | 701 | 4 | 2,229 | 0 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| Cloughjordan | 701 | 2 | 193 | 0 | 0% | 8 km |
| Leitrim | 701 | 1 | 220 | 0 | 0% | 4.7 km |
| Shanagarry | 700 | 2 | 201 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Termonbarry | 699 | 3 | 229 | 0 | 0% | 9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
Among the 169 other towns, 5 have more pupils at their schools than Julianstown does. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 15 of the 170.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Julianstown
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 Julianstown had 2,172 pupils in 2015/16 and 2,229 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Julianstown
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 Julianstown
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julianstown | 4 | 2,229 | 0 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| Stamullen 4 km | 3 | 1,043 | 0 | 0% | 2.1 km |
| Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney 4.2 km | 11 | 5,783 | 1 | 0% | 1.4 km |
| Drogheda 7.1 km | 29 | 14,360 | 2 | 28% | 0.5 km |
| Balbriggan 8.3 km | 17 | 8,295 | 2 | 29% | 0.3 km |
| Duleek 9.4 km | 4 | 957 | 0 | 50% | 6.8 km |
| Balrothery 11 km | 16 | 7,860 | 2 | 31% | 1.7 km |
Drogheda has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Julianstown changed by −3%; among its neighbours, Drogheda’s grew most (+7%) and Stamullen’s least (−20%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Julianstown 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 Julianstown
How many schools are there in Julianstown?
In Julianstown or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 2,229 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Julianstown that teach through Irish?
None in Julianstown 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 Julianstown?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Julianstown?
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 Julianstown?
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).