Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0Most post-primaries around Ballingarry take girls and boys: 0% are single-sex, below Co. Tipperary’s towns and Irish towns
Set beside other towns, Ballingarry comes out below both Co. Tipperary’s towns (67%) and Irish towns (39%). Pupils: 436, up 15% 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.
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 Ballingarry’s schools
Extra support for many schools
Many schools here are in DEIS, which gives schools in disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and help; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. In DEIS: Presentation Secondary School (365) and Our Lady's National School (71). Who runs them ↓
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 ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Who runs Ballingarry’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
2 of Ballingarry’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Archbishop of Cashel & Emly (1) and CEIST (1). 2 of the 2 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.
Pupil numbers around Ballingarry
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 Ballingarry had 308 pupils in 2015/16 and 436 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Ballingarry
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.
Where the 2 schools in and around Ballingarry 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 Ballingarry’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 Ballingarry
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 2 schools in and around Ballingarry teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Ballingarry’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Tipperary’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 Ballingarry | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 100% | 31% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 47% | 49% | 49% |
More of the pupils around Ballingarry are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 100% against 27% (Co. Tipperary: 31%). Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 0% against 6%. The largest DEIS school here is Presentation Secondary School, with 365 pupils.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady's National SchoolPrimary | 71 | 49% | ✓ | |
| Presentation Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 365 | 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.
How children get a place in Ballingarry
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
Between 2019/20 and now, 1 of the 2 grew by 5% or more and 1 shrank as much, while Ireland’s pupil numbers moved +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 2 schools in and around Ballingarry
Every school in Ballingarry 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.
Inspection reports for Ballingarry’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and 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 2 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Our Lady's National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Presentation Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Ballingarry
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Families in Ballingarry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | DEIS | 365 | 1.7 km |
| Scoil RuainETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 360 | 9.4 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Ballingarry beside the 224 other Irish towns of 200 to 400 people
Towns of a similar size, with the schools in or within 3 km of each; ordered by population, never ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossbarry | 399 | 2 | 184 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Killavullen | 292 | 1 | 109 | 0 | 0% | 8.5 km |
| Dromore West | 292 | 1 | 90 | 0 | 100% | 6.9 km |
| Kells | 291 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 0% | 7.8 km |
| Annascaul | 291 | 1 | 97 | 0 | 0% | 12 km |
| Ballingarry | 291 | 2 | 436 | 0 | 100% | 1.7 km |
| Bunratty | 288 | 2 | 999 | 0 | 0% | 3.2 km |
| Drumkeeran | 287 | 2 | 211 | 0 | 50% | 0.3 km |
| Cootehall | 287 | 1 | 156 | 0 | 0% | 6.3 km |
| Doohamlat | 287 | 1 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 4.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
Of the other 224 towns, 25 have more pupils at the schools around them than Ballingarry. Within 3 km, 17 of these 225 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Ballingarry
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballingarry | 2 | 436 | 0 | 100% | 1.7 km |
| Callan 12 km | 2 | 1,112 | 0 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Urlingford 15 km | 2 | 882 | 0 | 100% | 3.1 km |
| Fethard 17 km | 2 | 493 | 0 | 100% | 0.4 km |
Since 2019/20 the pupils around Ballingarry changed by +15%; among its neighbours, Fethard’s grew most (+32%) and Urlingford’s least (+3%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Ballingarry 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 Ballingarry
How many schools are there in Ballingarry?
In Ballingarry or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school and 1 secondary school, with 436 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Ballingarry that teach through Irish?
None in Ballingarry 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 Ballingarry?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Ballingarry?
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 Ballingarry?
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).