Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0The nearest secondary school to Delvin is 11 km away
Around Delvin, 0% of schools are in DEIS, below both Co. Westmeath’s towns (17%) and Irish towns (35%). Every one of its 3 schools within 3 km has a Catholic ethos. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
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.
Where the 3 schools in and around Delvin 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 Delvin’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 Delvin’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
3 of Delvin’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Meath (3). None of the 3 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 schools in and around Delvin
Here are the schools in Delvin or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. You won’t find letters or results below: Ireland publishes none for single schools.
Teaching through Irish in and around Delvin
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 3 schools in and around Delvin teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Delvin’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against Co. Westmeath’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Delvin | Co. Westmeath | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 23% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 42% | 51% | 49% |
DEIS schools teach 0% of the pupils around Delvin, a smaller share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Westmeath: 23%). The biggest difference from Ireland is in girls: 42% here, 49% there.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earnain Mxd N.S.Primary | 105 | 46% | ||
| Naomh MhuireSpecial | 46 | 41% | ||
| Crowenstown N.S.Primary | 12 | 17% |
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.
One patron for Delvin’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
Every school around Delvin has the same patron: Bishop of Meath.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of MeathEarnain Mxd, Naomh Mhuire, Crowenstown | Catholic | 3 | 163 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Delvin
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
Of these 2 schools, 0 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 2 have lost as much; Ireland’s pupils changed by +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 Delvin’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 3 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Earnain Mxd N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Naomh MhuireSpecial | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Crowenstown N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Delvin
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
No post-primary school is within 10 km of Delvin; the nearest is Columba College, 11 km away.
Special schools and classes around Delvin
Naomh Mhuire is the special school here, with 46 pupils. 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.
Delvin beside the 187 other Irish towns of 500 to 1,000 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castletownbere | 999 | 3 | 524 | 0 | 67% | 0.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Carlanstown | 718 | 1 | 165 | 0 | 0% | 4.5 km |
| Louth | 717 | 1 | 181 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
| Killygordon | 716 | 4 | 318 | 0 | 100% | 5.9 km |
| Elphin | 715 | 2 | 344 | 0 | 50% | 0.7 km |
| Delvin | 714 | 3 | 163 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Shinrone | 707 | 1 | 121 | 0 | 100% | 5.5 km |
| Borris | 702 | 2 | 754 | 0 | 0% | 1.5 km |
| Clonmellon | 702 | 1 | 178 | 0 | 0% | 8.2 km |
| Julianstown | 701 | 4 | 2,229 | 0 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 153 of the other 187 towns than around Delvin. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 16 of the 188.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Delvin
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Delvin had 167 pupils in 2015/16 and 163 in 2025/26, fewer than before. Naomh Mhuire grew most: +59% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Delvin
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 Delvin
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delvin | 3 | 163 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Athboy 11 km | 4 | 1,372 | 2 | 0% | 0.8 km |
| Killucan-Rathwire 12 km | 4 | 698 | 0 | 25% | 0.9 km |
| Ballivor 12 km | 2 | 248 | 0 | 100% | 9.7 km |
| Castlepollard 16 km | 3 | 512 | 0 | 67% | 1 km |
| Kinnegad 18 km | 1 | 413 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Oldcastle 18 km | 2 | 852 | 0 | 50% | 0.4 km |
Athboy has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Delvin changed by −2%; among its neighbours, Castlepollard’s grew most (+17%) and Ballivor’s least (−37%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Delvin 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 Delvin
How many schools are there in Delvin?
In Delvin or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools and 1 special school, with 163 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Delvin that teach through Irish?
None in Delvin or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Delvin?
Not in Delvin or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Columba College, 11 km away.
What is the best school in Delvin?
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 Delvin?
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).