Photo: Row17 · CC BY-SA 2.0More of the post-primaries around Trim are single-sex than around Co. Meath’s towns or Irish towns: 50%
That leaves Trim above both Co. Meath’s towns (0%) and Irish towns (39%). In or within 3 km of Trim, they have 3,065 pupils in all. With no school results published in Ireland, and the Education Act 1998 restricting comparisons of them, these schools are described, not 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 Trim’s schools
Few schools in DEIS
Only 1 of the 7 schools here are in DEIS, the programme of extra teachers and money for schools serving disadvantaged areas; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. The one in DEIS: Boyne Community School (1,008). Who goes there ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 7 schools in and around Trim 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 Trim’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 Trim
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
1 of Trim’s 7 schools teach every subject through Irish: Gaelscoil na Boinne.
Who Trim’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against 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 Trim | Co. Meath | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 33% | 14% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 7% | 5% | 6% |
| Girls | 53% | 49% | 49% |
| Post-primary pupils at single-sex schools | 45% | 22% | 29% |
| Post-primary pupils at fee-paying schools | 0% | 0% | 6% |
DEIS schools teach 33% of the pupils around Trim, a larger share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Meath: 14%). Set beside Ireland, post-primary pupils at single-sex schools stand out most: 45% against 29%. The largest DEIS school here is Boyne Community School, with 1,008 pupils.
Each of the 7 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boyne Community SchoolPost-primary · Community school | 1,008 | 24% | ✓ | |
| Scoil MhuirePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 814 | 100% | ||
| St Marys Convent N.S.Primary | 521 | 69% | ||
| Scoil Mhichil na BuachailliPrimary | 294 | 2% | ||
| Gaelscoil na BoinnePrimary | 206 | 51% | ✓ | |
| Trim Educate Together National SchoolPrimary | 174 | 50% | ||
| St Patricks N.S.Primary | 48 | 54% |
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 Trim’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
4 of Trim’s 7 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Meath (2), Louth & Meath ETB & Bishop of Meath (1) and CEIST (1). 1 of the 7 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.
The 6 patrons of Trim’s schools
Patrons own the schools and set their ethos; boards of management run them day to day.
6 patrons run the 7 schools around Trim; the largest, Bishop of Meath, has 2 of them and 27% of the pupils. One is an ETB school. Educate Together runs one.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of MeathSt Marys Convent, Scoil Mhichil na Buachailli | Catholic | 2 | 815 |
| Louth & Meath ETB & Bishop of MeathBoyne | Inter-denominational | 1 | 1,008 |
| CEISTScoil Mhuire | Catholic | 1 | 814 |
| An Foras PátrúnachtaGaelscoil na Boinne | Catholic | 1 | 206 |
| Educate TogetherTrim Educate Together | Multi-denominational | 1 | 174 |
| Bishop of Meath & Kildare COISt Patricks | Church of Ireland | 1 | 48 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Trim
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
2 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 4 have shrunk by as much, out of 7; 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 7 schools in and around Trim
Each school in or within 3 km of Trim links to a page of its own. Ireland publishes no school-by-school results, which is why these cards have no letters.
Inspection reports for Trim’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
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; each of the 7 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Boyne Community SchoolPost-primary · Community school | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil MhuirePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Marys Convent N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil Mhichil na BuachailliPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Gaelscoil na BoinnePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Trim Educate Together National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Patricks N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Trim
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
Within 10 km of Trim there are 3 post-primary schools: one voluntary secondary school, one community school and one ETB school. Only one teaches girls and boys apart. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil MhuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 814 | 0.5 km |
| Boyne Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 1,008 | 0.6 km |
| Coláiste Pobail Rath CairnETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaeltacht school | 140 | 8.7 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Trim
No special school is in or near Trim. 2 of the 5 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.
Trim beside the 85 other Irish towns of 6,700 to 12,900 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hollystown | 12,884 | 68 | 22,939 | 3 | 50% | 1.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Donabate | 9,669 | 6 | 2,087 | 1 | 0% | 0.3 km |
| Tuam | 9,647 | 8 | 3,460 | 1 | 25% | 0.3 km |
| Donaghmede | 9,616 | 73 | 21,067 | 4 | 38% | 0.3 km |
| Grantstown and Ballinakill | 9,571 | 31 | 11,459 | 2 | 36% | 2.1 km |
| Trim | 9,563 | 7 | 3,065 | 1 | 14% | 0.5 km |
| Glasnevin | 9,299 | 145 | 39,626 | 10 | 59% | 0.5 km |
| Portarlington | 9,288 | 5 | 2,657 | 0 | 0% | 1.3 km |
| Waterford City Centre | 9,031 | 33 | 12,411 | 2 | 39% | 0.5 km |
| Sandyford | 8,844 | 67 | 27,808 | 8 | 8% | 0.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Santry | 6,710 | 64 | 20,947 | 7 | 64% | 1.7 km |
Of the other 85 towns, 71 have more pupils at the schools around them than Trim. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 83 of the 86.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Trim
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Trim had 2,687 pupils in 2015/16 and 3,065 in 2025/26. Trim Educate Together National School grew most: +72% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Trim
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 Trim
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
Athboy has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Pupils around Trim: +5% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Enfield led (+85%) and Ballivor trailed (−37%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Trim 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 Trim
How many schools are there in Trim?
In Trim or within 3 km of it: 5 primary schools and 2 secondary schools, with 3,065 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Trim that teach through Irish?
Yes, 1: Gaelscoil na Boinne teach every subject through Irish.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Trim?
No: all 2 secondary schools here are free.
What is the best school in Trim?
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 Trim?
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).