Photo: Spideog · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Moate, only 0% of schools are in DEIS, fewer than around Co. Westmeath’s towns or Irish towns
That puts Moate below both Co. Westmeath’s towns (33%) and Irish towns (35%). Moate Community School, with 913 pupils, is the only secondary school within 3 km. With no school results published in Ireland, and the Education Act 1998 restricting comparisons of them, these schools are described, not graded or ranked.
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.
The 4 schools in and around Moate
Every school in Moate 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.
Where the 4 schools in and around Moate 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 Moate’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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Moate
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 4 schools in and around Moate teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Moate’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Westmeath’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 Moate | Co. Westmeath | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 23% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 52% | 51% | 49% |
DEIS schools teach 0% of the pupils around Moate, a smaller share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Westmeath: 23%). Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 0% against 6%.
Each of the 4 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moate Community SchoolPost-primary · Community school | 913 | 52% | ||
| St Brigid's Primary SchoolPrimary | 241 | 76% | ||
| Bl Oliver Plunkett N.S.Primary | 80 | 0% | ||
| S.N. MhanachainPrimary | 176 | 45% |
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 Moate’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Moate’s 4 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Ardagh & Clonmacnoise (2), Longford & Westmeath ETB & Carmelite Order (Irish Province) (1) and Bishop of Meath (1). None of the 4 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 Moate’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
The schools around Moate answer to 3 patrons, and Bishop of Ardagh & Clonmacnoise leads with 2 of the 4 schools and 23% of their pupils. The local Education and Training Board runs one.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of Ardagh & ClonmacnoiseSt Brigid's Primary School, Bl Oliver Plunkett | Catholic | 2 | 321 |
| Longford & Westmeath ETB & Carmelite Order (Irish Province)Moate | Inter-denominational | 1 | 913 |
| Bishop of MeathS.N. Mhanachain | Catholic | 1 | 176 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Moate
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
Since 2019/20, 2 of these 4 schools have grown by 5% or more and 1 have shrunk as much; across Ireland the number of 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 Moate’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
The Inspectorate inspects schools in several ways: a whole-school evaluation covers teaching, learning and how the school is led; a subject inspection looks at one subject; a follow-through checks on earlier advice. Reports go on gov.ie with the school’s reply.
Reports say what inspectors found and what should improve, without an overall grade, so none appears here; each of the 4 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Moate Community SchoolPost-primary · Community school | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Brigid's Primary SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Bl Oliver Plunkett N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. MhanachainPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Moate
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
2 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Moate: one community school and one ETB school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moate Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 913 | 0.4 km |
| Ardscoil Chiaráin NaofaETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 333 | 9.6 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Moate
No special school is in or near Moate. 1 of the 3 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.
Moate beside the 87 other Irish towns of 2,100 to 4,100 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macroom | 4,096 | 6 | 1,897 | 0 | 17% | 0.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Taylor's Hill | 3,141 | 30 | 10,795 | 4 | 23% | 0.4 km |
| Blackpool | 3,124 | 65 | 18,866 | 5 | 52% | 0.6 km |
| Kinnegad | 3,064 | 1 | 413 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Ballynanty | 3,030 | 39 | 12,623 | 4 | 51% | 0.3 km |
| Moate | 3,013 | 4 | 1,410 | 0 | 0% | 0.4 km |
| Togher | 3,007 | 60 | 20,680 | 6 | 45% | 1 km |
| Bailieborough | 2,974 | 5 | 1,420 | 0 | 20% | 0.1 km |
| Ballina | 2,959 | 4 | 1,336 | 0 | 50% | 1.1 km |
| Kingscourt | 2,955 | 5 | 1,252 | 0 | 0% | 0.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Dunleer | 2,143 | 5 | 1,205 | 0 | 20% | 0.8 km |
Among the 87 other towns, 46 have more pupils at their schools than Moate does. 43 of the 88 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Moate
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Moate had 1,798 pupils in 2015/16 and 1,410 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Moate
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 Moate
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moate | 4 | 1,410 | 0 | 0% | 0.4 km |
| Clara 9.5 km | 3 | 699 | 0 | 100% | 0.3 km |
| Athlone 15 km | 17 | 6,365 | 1 | 35% | 1.1 km |
| Kilbeggan 15 km | 2 | 966 | 0 | 0% | 1 km |
| Ferbane 16 km | 2 | 630 | 0 | 50% | 0.3 km |
| Ballymahon 19 km | 5 | 1,663 | 0 | 40% | 0.3 km |
Athlone has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Moate changed by +4%; among its neighbours, Kilbeggan’s grew most (+15%) and Clara’s least (−5%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Moate 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 Moate
How many schools are there in Moate?
In Moate or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 1,410 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Moate that teach through Irish?
None in Moate or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Moate?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Moate?
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 Moate?
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).