Crowenstown N.S.
Crowenstown, Delvin, Co. Westmeath · N91 X7DV · Roll number 02263S
Crowenstown N.S. is one of 2 primary schools in or within 3 km of Delvin. Every school in and around Delvin →
What stands out about Crowenstown N.S.
- A small primary school: 12 pupils, against a typical 131.
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Smaller than it was: 12 pupils, 50% fewer than the 24 of 2019/20.
- 2 girls and 10 boys: more of one than the other.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Meath; its ethos is Catholic.
- Outside Delvin’s outline, 2.9 km away; listed with Delvin, the nearest town in its county.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Crowenstown N.S. had 12 pupils in 2025/26, down from 28 in 2015/16 (−57%). Girls are 17% of them. Its roll rose in 3 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Crowenstown N.S.
Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing schools by them, so this school has no letter and nothing here ranks it. Its facts are the Department of Education’s; its inspection reports are linked below.
What the Department of Education does publish for Crowenstown N.S. is on this page: its pupils each September since 2015/16, girls and boys, its patron and ethos, whether it teaches through Irish, whether it is in DEIS, and its inspection reports.
Newspapers print lists of how many of a school’s leavers go on to college. Those count destinations, not exam results, and depend on who a school takes in; we don’t use them.
Inspection reports on Crowenstown N.S.
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate visits schools and publishes its reports. The reports describe what inspectors saw; they give no overall grade, and we don’t make one. Reports for this school on gov.ie ↗
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.
Getting a place at Crowenstown N.S.
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Crowenstown N.S. directly. Children can start once they are four and must be in school by six; the school’s yearly admission notice gives the dates for applying and for its decisions.
A school with more applicants than places admits on the criteria in its admission policy, often brothers and sisters, the area it serves and, for post-primary schools, its feeder primaries. A family refused a place can appeal.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Crowenstown N.S. has shrunk by 50% since 2019/20. All the schools around Delvin together changed by −2%.
Pupils since 2019/20
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; Department of Education enrolments 2019/20 and 2025/26 (preliminary).
Side by side with the nearest primary schools
2025/26The nearest schools of the same kind, as the crow flies: their pupils, ethos and language. No results: none are published.
Each of the 6 nearest primary schools has more pupils than Crowenstown N.S.. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −50%; 6 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crowenstown N.S. | 12 | −50% | Catholic | English | ||
| Earnain Mxd N.S. | 105 | −8% | Catholic | English | 3.5 km | |
| Cluain Maolain N.S. | 178 | −21% | Catholic | English | 6.1 km | |
| S.N. Mhuire | 15 | −40% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 6.7 km |
| Naomh Tola N.S. | 219 | +4% | Catholic | English | 6.9 km | |
| O'Growney National School | 382 | +7% | Catholic | English | 7.5 km | |
| Kilskyre Mixed N.S. | 87 | −1% | Catholic | English | 9.6 km |
The other 69 primary schools in Co. Westmeath
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mhuire N.S. | 61 | −48% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| S.N. Phadraig | 74 | −20% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Baile na gCailleach N S | 166 | +19% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Naomh Iosef N.S. | 285 | +1% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| St Feighans Mxd N.S. | 100 | −7% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Loch an Ghair N.S. | 208 | −1% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Baile Coireil N.S. | 82 | −20% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Diarmada N.S. | 90 | +11% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| St Etchens National School | 413 | −23% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 83 | +0% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| S N na nDun | 159 | +7% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| Castlepollard Mixed N.S. | 169 | +20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 19 km |
| Castlepollard Paroc.n.s. | 25 | +19% | Church of Ireland | English | 19 km | |
| Holy Family Primary School | 439 | +32% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Scoil Cholmain Naofa | 445 | −8% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 21 km |
| Presentation Convent (Jnr) | 277 | −12% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 22 km |
| Scoil na Maighdine Mhuire | 307 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 22 km |
| S N na Naomh Uile | 86 | −7% | Church of Ireland | English | 22 km | |
| Scoil na mBraithre | 409 | −1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 23 km |
| Gaelscoil An Choillín | 154 | +111% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 23 km | |
| Gaelscoil an Mhuilinn | 179 | −26% | Catholic | All in Irish | 23 km | |
| Milltownpass N.S. | 73 | +4% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| Mullingar Educate Together NS | 381 | −6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 24 km |
| St. Colmcille's N.S. | 239 | −0% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| S.N. Chruimin Naofa | 222 | +10% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| S.N. an Chuil | 14 | −71% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Naomh Micheal N.S. | 17 | −19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 25 km |
| Kilpatrick N.S. | 224 | −4% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| Scoil Chroi Naofa | 214 | −12% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Naomh Muire N.S. | 12 | – | Catholic | English | ✓ | 29 km |
| Odhran Naofa N.S. | 95 | +10% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Fiontan | 29 | −44% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 30 km |
| Dalystown N.S. | 81 | −16% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Dysart N.S. | 24 | −35% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Rath Eoghan N.S. | 62 | +19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 32 km |
| Ballynacargy Mixed N.S. | 55 | +0% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| Naomh Tomas N.S. | 16 | −36% | Church of Ireland | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| St. Anne's National School | 176 | +18% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Scoil Phadraig | 88 | +1% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| Lochan an Bhealaigh N.S. | 57 | −11% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| Mhichil Naofa N.S. | 81 | −4% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Ballinagore Mixed N.S. | 97 | −5% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| S.N. Bhride | 8 | −74% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| S.N. Aodha Naofa | 27 | −41% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Magh Mora N.S. | 29 | −19% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Streamstown Mixed N.S. | 107 | −4% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Boher N.S. | 18 | – | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Scoil an Chlochair Cill Bheagan | 226 | −8% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Eoin Naofa N.S. | 100 | −9% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 45 km |
| Kilcrumreragh N.S. | 104 | +28% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| Drumraney Mixed N.S. | 23 | −15% | Catholic | English | 49 km | |
| Tang N.S. | 117 | −6% | Catholic | English | 51 km | |
| St Brigid's Primary School | 241 | +4% | Catholic | English | 51 km | |
| Bl Oliver Plunkett N.S. | 80 | −20% | Catholic | English | 52 km | |
| Ard na gCraith NS | 110 | −15% | Catholic | English | 52 km | |
| An Ghrianan N.S. | 167 | −11% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| Naomh Clar N.S. | 293 | +7% | Catholic | English | 56 km | |
| Sc Ciarain | 227 | +21% | Catholic | English | 57 km | |
| Cill Cleithe N.S. | 99 | −3% | Catholic | English | 57 km | |
| Corr na Madadh N S | 306 | +16% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 60 km |
| Cluain Buinne N.S. | 164 | +34% | Catholic | English | 61 km | |
| Ballinahown N.S. | 96 | +8% | Catholic | English | 61 km | |
| Scoil na gCeithre Maistri | 235 | −20% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 62 km |
| S.N. an Cusan | 413 | −2% | Catholic | English | 62 km | |
| St Marys N.S. | 573 | +31% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 63 km |
| Athlone N.S. | 56 | −13% | Church of Ireland | English | 63 km | |
| St Peters N.S. Snr | 112 | −24% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 63 km |
| S.N. Phoil Naofa | 125 | −9% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 64 km |
| S.N. Deaghan O Ceallaigh | 77 | −28% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 64 km |
Living in Delvin
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the N91 Eircode area
Housing in Delvin →The median sale price rose from €250,000 in 2023 to €327,800 in 2025 (+31%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the N91 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Co. Westmeath
Cost of living in Delvin →New tenancies in Co. Westmeath averaged €1,257 a month in 2025, against €1,156 in 2024 (+9%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗near Delvin, N91 X7DV
Primary schools near Crowenstown N.S.
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Crowenstown N.S.
Is Crowenstown N.S. a good school?
We don’t grade it: Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them. Its inspection reports on gov.ie, a visit and a talk with the principal will tell you more than any table could.
How many pupils does Crowenstown N.S. have?
12 pupils in 2025/26. That is −50% since 2019/20.
Does Crowenstown N.S. teach through Irish?
No: Crowenstown N.S. teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Crowenstown N.S.?
Crowenstown N.S. has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Meath.
How do pupils get a place at Crowenstown N.S.?
Apply to the school directly. It publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice with its dates; if more children apply than it has places, it admits on the criteria in its policy.
Which schools of the same kind are near Crowenstown N.S.?
The nearest are Earnain Mxd N.S. (3.5 km), Cluain Maolain N.S. (6.1 km) and S.N. Mhuire (6.7 km).
Sources: Department of Education, school lists 2025/26 (preliminary) and enrolments since 2015/16, CC BY 4.0 · inspection reports on gov.ie, linked by roll number. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Facts from the Department of Education’s school lists. Listed with Delvin; nothing here rates the school.
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).