More children at the schools around Baylin: +18% since 2019/20, above Co. Westmeath’s towns and Irish towns
On this, Baylin is above both Co. Westmeath’s towns (+4%) and Irish towns (+4%). Pupils: 533, up 18% since 2019/20. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results 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.
What stands out about Baylin’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 ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Baylin 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 Baylin’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 Baylin
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 Baylin had 439 pupils in 2015/16 and 533 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Baylin
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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Baylin
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Baylin teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Baylin’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Westmeath’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Baylin | Co. Westmeath | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 57% | 23% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 51% | 51% | 49% |
Around Baylin, 57% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 23% in Co. Westmeath. Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 0% against 6%. The largest DEIS school here is Corr na Madadh N S, with 306 pupils.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sc CiarainPrimary | 227 | 52% | ||
| Corr na Madadh N SPrimary | 306 | 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 Baylin’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
1 of Baylin’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Ardagh & Clonmacnoise (1) and Longford & Westmeath Education and Training Board (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.
How children get a place in Baylin
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, 2 of the 2 grew by 5% or more and 0 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 Baylin
Every school in Baylin or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. You won’t find letters or results below: Ireland publishes none for single schools.
Inspection reports for Baylin’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, none rated
Inspectors visit every kind of school. Whole-school evaluations look at teaching and learning, leadership and management; subject inspections look at one subject; follow-through inspections check whether earlier advice was taken. Each report is published 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 2 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Sc CiarainPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Corr na Madadh N SPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Baylin
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
4 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Baylin: 2 voluntary secondary schools, one ETB school and one community school. 2 teach girls and boys apart: 1 girls’ and 1 boys’ schools. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athlone Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,117 | 5.6 km |
| Our Lady's BowerVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 630 | 5.8 km |
| Marist CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 610 | 6 km |
| Moate Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 913 | 8.6 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Baylin 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 |
| … | ||||||
| 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 |
| Ballygawley | 285 | 3 | 358 | 0 | 33% | 5.2 km |
| Baylin | 284 | 2 | 533 | 0 | 50% | 5.6 km |
| Emo | 283 | 1 | 207 | 0 | 0% | 6.7 km |
| Toomevara | 283 | 1 | 96 | 0 | 100% | 11 km |
| Duncannon | 281 | 4 | 841 | 0 | 25% | 2.8 km |
| Clashmore | 280 | 2 | 120 | 0 | 50% | 7.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
Among the 224 other towns, 21 have more pupils at their schools than Baylin does. 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 Baylin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baylin | 2 | 533 | 0 | 50% | 5.6 km |
| Athlone 7 km | 17 | 6,365 | 1 | 35% | 1.1 km |
| Moate 8.8 km | 4 | 1,410 | 0 | 0% | 0.4 km |
| Ballymahon 15 km | 5 | 1,663 | 0 | 40% | 0.3 km |
| Clara 18 km | 3 | 699 | 0 | 100% | 0.3 km |
| Ferbane 18 km | 2 | 630 | 0 | 50% | 0.3 km |
Athlone has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Pupils around Baylin: +18% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Athlone led (+11%) and Clara trailed (−5%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Baylin 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 Baylin
How many schools are there in Baylin?
In Baylin or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 533 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Baylin that teach through Irish?
None in Baylin or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Baylin?
Not in Baylin or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Athlone Community College, 5.6 km away.
What is the best school in Baylin?
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 Baylin?
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).