Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0The schools around Rosses Point have grown: pupils +31% since 2019/20, more than around Irish towns
For Rosses Point, that is above Irish towns (+4%). Pupils: 210, up 31% 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.
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 Rosses Point’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
Families here can choose among 6 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: Ursuline College (5.6 km), Summerhill College (6.7 km) and Ballinode College (6.9 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Rosses Point 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 Rosses Point’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 Rosses Point
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 Rosses Point had 146 pupils in 2015/16 and 210 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Rosses Point
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.
Who runs Rosses Point’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Rosses Point’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Elphin (1) and Daughters of Wisdom (1). None of the 2 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Rosses Point
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 2 schools in and around Rosses Point teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Rosses Point’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Sligo’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Rosses Point | Co. Sligo | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 24% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 2% | 6% |
| Girls | 46% | 48% | 49% |
Around Rosses Point, 0% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 24% in Co. Sligo. Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S N Realt na MaraPrimary | 117 | 58% | ||
| St. Cecilia's SchoolSpecial | 93 | 31% |
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.
How children get a place in Rosses Point
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.
The 2 schools in and around Rosses Point
Each school in or within 3 km of Rosses Point links to a page of its own. These schools carry no letter or result: Ireland doesn’t release them school by school.
Inspection reports for Rosses Point’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
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 2 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S N Realt na MaraPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St. Cecilia's SchoolSpecial | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Rosses Point
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Families in Rosses Point have 6 post-primary schools within 10 km: 4 voluntary secondary schools and 2 ETB schools. Only one teaches girls and boys apart. One of them charges fees. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ursuline CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 603 | 5.6 km |
| Summerhill CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 1,155 | 6.7 km |
| Ballinode CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 258 | 6.9 km |
| Sligo Grammar SchoolVoluntary secondary · Church of Ireland | Girls and boys | Fee-paying, Boarding | 475 | 7 km |
| Mercy CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 718 | 7.2 km |
| Grange Post Primary SchoolETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 302 | 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 Rosses Point
St. Cecilia's School is the special school here, with 93 pupils. 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.
Rosses Point beside the 178 other Irish towns of 600 to 1,200 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urlingford | 1,196 | 2 | 882 | 0 | 100% | 3.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Kilmacthomas | 891 | 4 | 1,073 | 0 | 25% | 0.5 km |
| Parteen | 889 | 21 | 7,682 | 2 | 57% | 1.6 km |
| Kilmacrennan | 888 | 1 | 231 | 0 | 0% | 7.7 km |
| Bruff | 887 | 1 | 219 | 0 | 0% | 7.3 km |
| Rosses Point | 883 | 2 | 210 | 0 | 0% | 5.6 km |
| Na Forbacha | 868 | 2 | 450 | 2 | 0% | 6.3 km |
| Collon | 864 | 1 | 190 | 0 | 0% | 8.6 km |
| Balla | 860 | 2 | 678 | 0 | 0% | 0.6 km |
| Doneraile | 857 | 2 | 434 | 0 | 50% | 0.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Na Dúnaibh | 601 | 2 | 202 | 1 | 100% | 14 km |
Of the other 178 towns, 123 have more pupils at the schools around them than Rosses Point. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 16 of the 179.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Rosses Point
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosses Point | 2 | 210 | 0 | 0% | 5.6 km |
| Strandhill 4.9 km | 1 | 252 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Sligo 6.6 km | 17 | 6,012 | 1 | 35% | 0.6 km |
| Ballysadare 11 km | 4 | 806 | 0 | 25% | 0.2 km |
| Collooney 14 km | 3 | 580 | 0 | 33% | 3.4 km |
| Coolaney 15 km | 1 | 174 | 0 | 0% | 7.5 km |
Sligo has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Pupils around Rosses Point: +31% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Collooney led (+31%) and Coolaney trailed (−19%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Rosses Point 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 Rosses Point
How many schools are there in Rosses Point?
In Rosses Point or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school and 1 special school, with 210 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Rosses Point that teach through Irish?
None in Rosses Point or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Rosses Point?
Not in Rosses Point or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Ursuline College, 5.6 km away.
What is the best school in Rosses Point?
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 Rosses Point?
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).