Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFewer single-sex secondaries around Strokestown than around Irish towns: 0%
That puts Strokestown below Irish towns (39%). Scoil Mhuire, with 671 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.
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.
Who runs Strokestown’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Strokestown’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Elphin (2) and CEIST (1). 1 of the 3 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 3 schools in and around Strokestown
Here are the schools in Strokestown or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. No letters, no results: Irish schools aren’t ranked one by one.
Where the 3 schools in and around Strokestown 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 Strokestown’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 Strokestown
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 3 schools in and around Strokestown teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Strokestown’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against Co. Roscommon’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 Strokestown | Co. Roscommon | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 5% | 29% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 1% | 6% |
| Girls | 49% | 48% | 49% |
Fewer of the pupils around Strokestown are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 5% against 27% (Co. Roscommon: 29%). Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 0% against 6%. The largest DEIS school here is S.N. Naomh Padraig, with 44 pupils.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil MhuirePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 671 | 49% | ||
| St Mary's PrimaryPrimary | 136 | 67% | ||
| S.N. Naomh PadraigPrimary | 44 | 0% | ✓ |
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.
The 2 patrons of Strokestown’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
2 patrons run the 3 schools around Strokestown; the largest, Bishop of Elphin, has 2 of them and 21% of the pupils.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of ElphinSt Mary's Primary, S.N. Naomh Padraig | Catholic | 2 | 180 |
| CEISTScoil Mhuire | Catholic | 1 | 671 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Strokestown
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, 1 have shrunk by as much, out of 3; 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 Strokestown’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
Each school is visited by inspectors from time to time, for a whole-school evaluation of teaching, learning and leadership, for one subject, or to follow up earlier advice, and every report is posted 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 3 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Scoil MhuirePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Mary's PrimaryPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Naomh PadraigPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Strokestown
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Families in Strokestown have 2 post-primary schools within 10 km: one voluntary secondary school and one ETB school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil MhuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 671 | 0.5 km |
| Elphin Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 206 | 9.6 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Strokestown
No special school is in or near Strokestown. 1 of the 2 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.
Strokestown beside the 158 other Irish towns of 600 to 1,100 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buttevant | 1,080 | 2 | 802 | 0 | 100% | 0.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Doneraile | 857 | 2 | 434 | 0 | 50% | 0.6 km |
| Ballyboghil | 855 | 2 | 563 | 0 | 0% | 5.6 km |
| Scarriff-Tuamgraney | 854 | 4 | 720 | 0 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Newtownforbes | 851 | 2 | 606 | 0 | 50% | 5 km |
| Strokestown | 850 | 3 | 851 | 0 | 33% | 0.5 km |
| Patrickswell | 848 | 2 | 204 | 0 | 50% | 3.8 km |
| Gowran | 847 | 1 | 197 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
| Rhode | 841 | 2 | 215 | 0 | 50% | 9.3 km |
| Kilsheelan | 837 | 1 | 90 | 0 | 0% | 7.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Na Dúnaibh | 601 | 2 | 202 | 1 | 100% | 14 km |
Of the other 158 towns, 27 have more pupils at the schools around them than Strokestown. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 15 of the 159.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Strokestown
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Strokestown had 625 pupils in 2015/16 and 851 in 2025/26. Scoil Mhuire grew most: +16% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Strokestown
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 Strokestown
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strokestown | 3 | 851 | 0 | 33% | 0.5 km |
| Lanesborough-Ballyleague 14 km | 4 | 514 | 0 | 75% | 1.2 km |
| Roscommon 18 km | 7 | 2,589 | 1 | 29% | 0.7 km |
| Carrick-On-Shannon 19 km | 5 | 1,575 | 1 | 0% | 0.2 km |
Roscommon has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. The roll around Strokestown moved +13% since 2019/20; nearby, Lanesborough-Ballyleague grew most (+22%) and Carrick-On-Shannon least (+4%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Strokestown 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 Strokestown
How many schools are there in Strokestown?
In Strokestown or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 851 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Strokestown that teach through Irish?
None in Strokestown 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 Strokestown?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Strokestown?
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 Strokestown?
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).