St Etchens National School
Mullingar Road, Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath · N91 CV96 · Roll number 19848S
St Etchens National School is the only one of the primary schools in or within 3 km of Kinnegad. Every school in and around Kinnegad →
What stands out about St Etchens National School
- One of the larger primary schools: 413 pupils, against a typical 131.
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Smaller than it was: 413 pupils, 23% fewer than the 535 of 2019/20.
- Has special classes for children who need more support.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Meath; its ethos is Catholic.
- The only primary school in Kinnegad or within 3 km of it.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26St Etchens National School had 413 pupils in 2025/26, down from 556 in 2015/16 (−26%). Girls are 42% of them. Its largest roll was 569, in 2016/17. Its roll rose in 2 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for St Etchens National School
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 St Etchens National School 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 St Etchens National School
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 St Etchens National School
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to St Etchens National School 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.
Places in special classes and special schools are allocated with the National Council for Special Education.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: St Etchens National School has shrunk by 23% since 2019/20. All the schools around Kinnegad together changed by −23%.
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.
St Etchens National School has more pupils than any of the 6 nearest primary schools. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −23%; 4 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Etchens National School | 413 | −23% | Catholic | English | ||
| Scoil Nais Finin Naofa | 63 | −2% | Catholic | English | 5.2 km | |
| Naomh Iosef N.S. | 285 | +1% | Catholic | English | 5.8 km | |
| Baile Coireil N.S. | 82 | −20% | Catholic | English | 6.6 km | |
| Castlejordan Central N.S. | 79 | −7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 6.7 km |
| Killyon N.S. | 60 | −34% | Catholic | English | 7.4 km | |
| Mhuire N.S. | 61 | −48% | Catholic | English | 7.6 km |
The other 69 primary schools in Co. Westmeath
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Phadraig | 74 | −20% | Catholic | English | 9.6 km | |
| Milltownpass N.S. | 73 | +4% | Catholic | English | 9.7 km | |
| S N na nDun | 159 | +7% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Scoil Chroi Naofa | 214 | −12% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Naomh Tola N.S. | 219 | +4% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| St. Colmcille's N.S. | 239 | −0% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Holy Family Primary School | 439 | +32% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Scoil Cholmain Naofa | 445 | −8% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 17 km |
| Loch an Ghair N.S. | 208 | −1% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Gaelscoil An Choillín | 154 | +111% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 17 km | |
| S N na Naomh Uile | 86 | −7% | Church of Ireland | English | 17 km | |
| Crowenstown N.S. | 12 | −50% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| Presentation Convent (Jnr) | 277 | −12% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 18 km |
| Scoil na Maighdine Mhuire | 307 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 18 km |
| Scoil na mBraithre | 409 | −1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 18 km |
| Earnain Mxd N.S. | 105 | −8% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| Gaelscoil an Mhuilinn | 179 | −26% | Catholic | All in Irish | 19 km | |
| Dalystown N.S. | 81 | −16% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| Mullingar Educate Together NS | 381 | −6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 19 km |
| St. Anne's National School | 176 | +18% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 83 | +0% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Kilpatrick N.S. | 224 | −4% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Baile na gCailleach N S | 166 | +19% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| S.N. Aodha Naofa | 27 | −41% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Dysart N.S. | 24 | −35% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Cluain Maolain N.S. | 178 | −21% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Ballinagore Mixed N.S. | 97 | −5% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Diarmada N.S. | 90 | +11% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| St Feighans Mxd N.S. | 100 | −7% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| Mhichil Naofa N.S. | 81 | −4% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| S.N. Chruimin Naofa | 222 | +10% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Odhran Naofa N.S. | 95 | +10% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Scoil an Chlochair Cill Bheagan | 226 | −8% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Lochan an Bhealaigh N.S. | 57 | −11% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Castlepollard Paroc.n.s. | 25 | +19% | Church of Ireland | English | 28 km | |
| Castlepollard Mixed N.S. | 169 | +20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| Streamstown Mixed N.S. | 107 | −4% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Scoil Phadraig | 88 | +1% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| Ballynacargy Mixed N.S. | 55 | +0% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 32 km |
| S.N. an Chuil | 14 | −71% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Boher N.S. | 18 | – | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Rath Eoghan N.S. | 62 | +19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 35 km |
| S.N. Bhride | 8 | −74% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Magh Mora N.S. | 29 | −19% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Kilcrumreragh N.S. | 104 | +28% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Naomh Tomas N.S. | 16 | −36% | Church of Ireland | English | ✓ | 36 km |
| Naomh Micheal N.S. | 17 | −19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 36 km |
| S.N. Naomh Fiontan | 29 | −44% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 37 km |
| Eoin Naofa N.S. | 100 | −9% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 38 km |
| Naomh Muire N.S. | 12 | – | Catholic | English | ✓ | 40 km |
| St Brigid's Primary School | 241 | +4% | Catholic | English | 42 km | |
| Bl Oliver Plunkett N.S. | 80 | −20% | Catholic | English | 42 km | |
| Drumraney Mixed N.S. | 23 | −15% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| An Ghrianan N.S. | 167 | −11% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Ard na gCraith NS | 110 | −15% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| Tang N.S. | 117 | −6% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| Cill Cleithe N.S. | 99 | −3% | Catholic | English | 48 km | |
| Sc Ciarain | 227 | +21% | Catholic | English | 49 km | |
| Naomh Clar N.S. | 293 | +7% | Catholic | English | 50 km | |
| Ballinahown N.S. | 96 | +8% | Catholic | English | 51 km | |
| Cluain Buinne N.S. | 164 | +34% | Catholic | English | 52 km | |
| Corr na Madadh N S | 306 | +16% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 53 km |
| Scoil na gCeithre Maistri | 235 | −20% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 54 km |
| S.N. an Cusan | 413 | −2% | Catholic | English | 55 km | |
| St Marys N.S. | 573 | +31% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 55 km |
| Athlone N.S. | 56 | −13% | Church of Ireland | English | 55 km | |
| S.N. Phoil Naofa | 125 | −9% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 56 km |
| St Peters N.S. Snr | 112 | −24% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 56 km |
| S.N. Deaghan O Ceallaigh | 77 | −28% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 56 km |
Living in Kinnegad
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the N91 Eircode area
Housing in Kinnegad →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 Kinnegad
Cost of living in Kinnegad →New tenancies in Kinnegad averaged €1,290 a month in 2025, against €1,131 in 2024 (+14%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗Kinnegad, N91 CV96
Primary schools near St Etchens National School
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about St Etchens National School
Is St Etchens National School 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 St Etchens National School have?
413 pupils in 2025/26. That is −23% since 2019/20.
Does St Etchens National School teach through Irish?
No: St Etchens National School teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs St Etchens National School?
St Etchens National School has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Meath.
How do pupils get a place at St Etchens National School?
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 St Etchens National School?
The nearest are Scoil Nais Finin Naofa (5.2 km), Naomh Iosef N.S. (5.8 km) and Baile Coireil N.S. (6.6 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 Kinnegad; 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).