Photo: Benutzer:Chieggie · Public domainMost post-primaries around Tramore take girls and boys: 0% are single-sex, below Co. Waterford’s towns and Irish towns
That puts Tramore below both Co. Waterford’s towns (56%) and Irish towns (39%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, Ardscoil na Mara, has 1,227 pupils. 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 Tramore’s schools
More all-Irish schools than most places
Families here have more choice of a school that teaches every subject through Irish than in most of Ireland, where 8% of schools do. The school is Gaelscoil Philib Barún (194). Language ↓
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: Ardscoil na Mara (0.4 km), Gaelcholáiste Phort Láirge (9.1 km) and St Angela's Secondary School (9.5 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Teaching through Irish in and around Tramore
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
1 of Tramore’s 5 schools teach every subject through Irish: Gaelscoil Philib Barún.
The 5 schools in and around Tramore
Each school in or within 3 km of Tramore links to a page of its own. Letters and results are missing here for a reason: Ireland publishes neither school by school.
Where the 5 schools in and around Tramore 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 Tramore’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 Tramore’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.
DEIS by stage: pupils at DEIS schools
| Share of pupils | Around Tramore | Co. Waterford | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 30% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Girls | 48% | 49% | 49% |
Around Tramore, 0% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 30% in Co. Waterford.
Each of the 5 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardscoil na MaraPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 1,227 | 48% | ||
| Holy Cross SchoolPrimary | 567 | 48% | ||
| Glor na Mara NSPrimary | 381 | 49% | ||
| Gaelscoil Philib BarúnPrimary | 194 | 47% | ✓ | |
| Tramore Educate Together National SchoolPrimary | 180 | 51% |
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 Tramore’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
4 of Tramore’s 5 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Waterford & Lismore (3), Joint patronage between the Edmund Rice Schools Trust and the Religious Sisters of Charity (1) and Educate Together (1). None of the 5 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 3 patrons of Tramore’s schools
Patrons own the schools and set their ethos; boards of management run them day to day.
Of the 5 schools around Tramore, 3 have Bishop of Waterford & Lismore as patron, teaching 45% of the pupils; 3 patrons in all. Educate Together runs one.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of Waterford & LismoreHoly Cross School, Glor na Mara NS, Gaelscoil Philib Barún | Catholic | 3 | 1,142 |
| Joint patronage between the Edmund Rice Schools Trust and the Religious Sisters of CharityArdscoil na Mara | Catholic | 1 | 1,227 |
| Educate TogetherTramore Educate Together | Multi-denominational | 1 | 180 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Tramore
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, 3 have shrunk by as much, out of 5; 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 Tramore’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 5 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Ardscoil na MaraPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Holy Cross SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Glor na Mara NSPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Gaelscoil Philib BarúnPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Tramore Educate Together National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Tramore
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Within 10 km of Tramore there are 5 post-primary schools: 4 voluntary secondary schools and one ETB school. 2 of them are single-sex, 2 for girls and 0 for boys. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardscoil na MaraVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 1,227 | 0.4 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Phort LáirgeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 146 | 9.1 km |
| St Angela's Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 937 | 9.5 km |
| St Paul's Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 792 | 9.8 km |
| Presentation Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | DEIS | 458 | 9.9 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Tramore
No special school is in or near Tramore. 2 of the 4 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.
Tramore beside the 87 other Irish towns of 7,900 to 15,200 people
Schools in or within 3 km of each town, by population; none is ranked, as Ireland publishes no results
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castletroy | 15,093 | 29 | 10,543 | 3 | 52% | 1.3 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ballygall | 11,704 | 118 | 32,759 | 10 | 55% | 0.4 km |
| Kilnamanagh | 11,703 | 112 | 38,733 | 8 | 48% | 0.4 km |
| Phibsborough | 11,657 | 146 | 40,148 | 12 | 51% | 0.5 km |
| Gorey | 11,517 | 8 | 4,875 | 1 | 13% | 0.6 km |
| Tramore | 11,277 | 5 | 2,549 | 1 | 0% | 0.4 km |
| Drumcondra | 11,149 | 151 | 41,836 | 12 | 58% | 0.3 km |
| Ronanstown | 11,130 | 76 | 32,256 | 6 | 40% | 0.2 km |
| Athy | 11,035 | 7 | 2,975 | 1 | 57% | 0.8 km |
| Palmerston | 11,012 | 80 | 33,167 | 7 | 40% | 0.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Dubber | 7,941 | 54 | 15,781 | 5 | 67% | 1.8 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 84 of the other 87 towns than around Tramore. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 85 of the 88.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Tramore
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 Tramore had 2,460 pupils in 2015/16 and 2,549 in 2025/26. Tramore Educate Together National School grew most: +51% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Tramore
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 Tramore
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tramore | 5 | 2,549 | 1 | 0% | 0.4 km |
| Kilbarry 7.9 km | 30 | 12,024 | 1 | 43% | 1.9 km |
| Ballytruckle 8.6 km | 32 | 12,776 | 3 | 41% | 1 km |
| Ballybeg 8.8 km | 32 | 12,349 | 1 | 41% | 1.1 km |
| Grange 9.4 km | 32 | 12,776 | 3 | 41% | 1.3 km |
| Lisduggan 9.8 km | 29 | 11,782 | 1 | 45% | 0.2 km |
| Grange Upper 10 km | 29 | 11,835 | 2 | 41% | 0.8 km |
Ballytruckle has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 3. Of Tramore’s neighbours, Lisduggan saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+4%) and Grange Upper the least (+3%); Tramore itself: −2%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Tramore 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 Tramore
How many schools are there in Tramore?
In Tramore or within 3 km of it: 4 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 2,549 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Tramore that teach through Irish?
Yes, 1: Gaelscoil Philib Barún teach every subject through Irish.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Tramore?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Tramore?
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 Tramore?
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).