Photo: {own} · Public domainThe nearest secondary school to Cheekpoint is 5.9 km away
Around Cheekpoint, 0% of schools teach through Irish, below both Co. Waterford’s towns (6%) and Irish towns (8%). All 2 of its schools are Catholic: there is no other kind within 3 km. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
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 Cheekpoint’s schools
A wide choice at twelve
Families here can choose among 11 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: Ramsgrange Community School (5.9 km), Gaelcholáiste Phort Láirge (7 km) and Abbey Community College (7.2 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Cheekpoint 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 Cheekpoint’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.
Who runs Cheekpoint’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Cheekpoint’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Waterford & Lismore (1) and Bishop of Ferns (1). 1 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Cheekpoint
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Cheekpoint teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Cheekpoint’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Waterford’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Cheekpoint | Co. Waterford | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 24% | 30% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 6% | 6% |
| Girls | 44% | 49% | 49% |
Fewer of the pupils around Cheekpoint are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 24% against 27% (Co. Waterford: 30%). Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%. S.N. Catriona Nfa, with 61 pupils, is the largest school here in DEIS.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Faiche LiagPrimary | 196 | 43% | ||
| S.N. Catriona NfaPrimary | 61 | 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 Cheekpoint
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
1 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 0 have shrunk by as much, out of 2; 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 2 schools in and around Cheekpoint
Every school in Cheekpoint or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. There are no letters or results on these cards, because Ireland publishes none school by school.
Inspection reports for Cheekpoint’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. Faiche LiagPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Catriona NfaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Cheekpoint
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Within 10 km of Cheekpoint there are 11 post-primary schools: 8 voluntary secondary schools, 2 ETB schools and one community school. Of these, 5 are single-sex: 3 for girls and 2 for boys. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramsgrange Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 636 | 5.9 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Phort LáirgeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 146 | 7 km |
| Abbey Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,004 | 7.2 km |
| Waterpark CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 621 | 7.5 km |
| Newtown SchoolVoluntary secondary · Quaker | Girls and boys | Boarding | 415 | 7.5 km |
| De La Salle CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 1,023 | 7.6 km |
| C.B.S. Mount Sion, WaterfordVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | DEIS | 494 | 8.5 km |
| St Angela's Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 937 | 8.6 km |
| Our Lady of Mercy Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | DEIS | 479 | 9 km |
| Presentation Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | DEIS | 458 | 9.3 km |
| St Paul's Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 792 | 10 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Cheekpoint beside the 128 other Irish towns of 200 to 300 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Knightstown | 244 | 1 | 47 | 0 | 100% | 4 km |
| Monard | 244 | 1 | 112 | 0 | 0% | 5.5 km |
| Turloughmore | 243 | 2 | 296 | 0 | 0% | 6.5 km |
| Gleneely | 243 | 1 | 118 | 0 | 100% | 7.7 km |
| Cheekpoint | 242 | 2 | 257 | 0 | 50% | 5.9 km |
| Woodford | 242 | 2 | 210 | 0 | 50% | 0.8 km |
| Ballintra | 242 | 2 | 161 | 0 | 100% | 7.4 km |
| Donard | 238 | 2 | 213 | 0 | 0% | 6.6 km |
| Kilbrittain | 238 | 1 | 211 | 0 | 0% | 7.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
Of these 128 other towns, 26 count more pupils at their schools than Cheekpoint. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 7 of the 129.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Cheekpoint
Each September’s pupils at every school in or within 3 km of the town, counted where the school stands today.
The schools in and around Cheekpoint had 269 pupils in 2015/16 and 257 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Cheekpoint
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 Cheekpoint
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheekpoint | 2 | 257 | 0 | 50% | 5.9 km |
| Grantstown and Ballinakill 6.1 km | 31 | 11,459 | 2 | 36% | 2.1 km |
| Ferrybank 6.9 km | 32 | 12,081 | 2 | 38% | 0.6 km |
| Grange Upper 7.2 km | 29 | 11,835 | 2 | 41% | 0.8 km |
| Grange 7.6 km | 32 | 12,776 | 3 | 41% | 1.3 km |
| Waterford City Centre 8.1 km | 33 | 12,411 | 2 | 39% | 0.5 km |
| Poleberry 8.7 km | 29 | 11,782 | 1 | 45% | 0.4 km |
Grange has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 3. The roll around Cheekpoint moved −2% since 2019/20; nearby, Poleberry grew most (+4%) and Grantstown and Ballinakill least (+1%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Cheekpoint 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 Cheekpoint
How many schools are there in Cheekpoint?
In Cheekpoint or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 257 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Cheekpoint that teach through Irish?
None in Cheekpoint or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Cheekpoint?
Not in Cheekpoint or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Ramsgrange Community School, 5.9 km away.
What is the best school in Cheekpoint?
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 Cheekpoint?
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).