Photo: Deadstar · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Clontibret, only 0% of schools teach through Irish, fewer than around Co. Monaghan’s towns or Irish towns
For Clontibret, that is below both Co. Monaghan’s towns (17%) and Irish towns (8%). Pupils: 285, up 18% since 2019/20. With no school results published in Ireland, and the Education Act 1998 restricting comparisons of them, these schools are described, not graded or ranked.
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 Clontibret’s schools
More pupils every year
Pupil numbers at the schools here have grown faster than across Ireland (+5% since 2019/20), so classes and new places are a question worth asking. Pupils over time ↓
A wide choice at twelve
5 post-primary schools lie within 10 km, so families here have a real choice at twelve; each admits on its own policy. The nearest: Monaghan Collegiate School (6.3 km), Beech Hill College (7.9 km) and Coláiste Oiriall (8.2 km). Post-primary choices ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Where the 3 schools in and around Clontibret 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 Clontibret’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 Clontibret
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 Clontibret had 211 pupils in 2015/16 and 285 in 2025/26. Scoil Mhichil grew most: +94% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Clontibret
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.
The 3 schools in and around Clontibret
Here are the schools in Clontibret 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Clontibret
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 3 schools in and around Clontibret teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Clontibret’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Monaghan’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Clontibret | Co. Monaghan | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 33% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 9% | 6% |
| Girls | 51% | 48% | 49% |
0% of the pupils around Clontibret are at a DEIS school, fewer than the 27% across Ireland (33% in Co. Monaghan). Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil Naomh MhuirePrimary | 202 | 50% | ||
| Clontibret N.S.Primary | 23 | 61% | ||
| Scoil MhichilPrimary | 60 | 52% |
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 Clontibret’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
2 of Clontibret’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Clogher (2) and Bishop of Clogher COI (1). None of the 3 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 Clontibret’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
The schools around Clontibret answer to 2 patrons, and Bishop of Clogher leads with 2 of the 3 schools and 92% of their pupils.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of ClogherScoil Naomh Mhuire, Scoil Mhichil | Catholic | 2 | 262 |
| Bishop of Clogher COIClontibret | Church of Ireland | 1 | 23 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Clontibret
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
Of these 3 schools, 2 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 1 have lost as much; Ireland’s 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.
Inspection reports for Clontibret’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, none rated
Reports come from whole-school evaluations (teaching, learning, leadership and management), subject inspections and follow-through visits that check earlier advice; gov.ie publishes each one with the school’s response.
Reports say what inspectors found and what should improve, without an overall grade, so none appears here; each of the 3 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Scoil Naomh MhuirePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Clontibret N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil MhichilPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Clontibret
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Within 10 km of Clontibret there are 5 post-primary schools: 3 voluntary secondary schools and 2 ETB schools. 2 teach girls and boys apart: 1 girls’ and 1 boys’ schools. One of them charges fees. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monaghan Collegiate SchoolVoluntary secondary · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | Fee-paying | 234 | 6.3 km |
| Beech Hill CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 897 | 7.9 km |
| Coláiste OiriallETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 402 | 8.2 km |
| St. Louis Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 532 | 8.5 km |
| St. Macartan's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 617 | 8.6 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Clontibret
No special school is in or near Clontibret. 1 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.
Schools in the towns around Clontibret
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clontibret | 3 | 285 | 0 | 0% | 6.4 km |
| Monaghan 8.1 km | 11 | 3,968 | 2 | 36% | 0.2 km |
| Ballybay 10 km | 4 | 772 | 0 | 50% | 0.4 km |
| Castleblayney 13 km | 9 | 2,076 | 1 | 44% | 0.5 km |
Monaghan has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Of Clontibret’s neighbours, Castleblayney saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+25%) and Ballybay the least (+2%); Clontibret itself: +18%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Clontibret 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 Clontibret
How many schools are there in Clontibret?
In Clontibret or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, with 285 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Clontibret that teach through Irish?
None in Clontibret or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Clontibret?
Not in Clontibret or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Monaghan Collegiate School, 6.4 km away.
What is the best school in Clontibret?
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 Clontibret?
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).