Scoil Cholmain Naofa
Bellview, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath · N91 DX74 · Roll number 19650U
Scoil Cholmain Naofa is one of 12 primary schools in or within 3 km of Mullingar. Every school in and around Mullingar →
What stands out about Scoil Cholmain Naofa
- One of the larger primary schools: 445 pupils, against a typical 131.
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (−8%).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- In 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.
- The largest of the 12 primary schools around Mullingar.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Meath; its ethos is Catholic.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Scoil Cholmain Naofa had 445 pupils in 2025/26, down from 474 in 2015/16 (−6%). Girls are 48% of them. Its largest roll was 490, in 2017/18. 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 Scoil Cholmain Naofa
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 Scoil Cholmain Naofa 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 Scoil Cholmain Naofa
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 Scoil Cholmain Naofa
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Scoil Cholmain Naofa 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.
It is in DEIS, so it has extra support for pupils from disadvantaged areas.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Scoil Cholmain Naofa has shrunk by 8% since 2019/20. All the schools around Mullingar together changed by +3%.
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.
Scoil Cholmain Naofa has more pupils than any of the 6 nearest primary schools. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −8%; 4 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil Cholmain Naofa | 445 | −8% | Catholic | English | ✓ | |
| S N na Naomh Uile | 86 | −7% | Church of Ireland | English | 0.9 km | |
| Presentation Convent (Jnr) | 277 | −12% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 1 km |
| Scoil na Maighdine Mhuire | 307 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 1 km |
| Holy Family Primary School | 439 | +32% | Catholic | English | 1.2 km | |
| Scoil na mBraithre | 409 | −1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 1.3 km |
| Gaelscoil An Choillín | 154 | +111% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 1.6 km |
The other 66 primary schools in Co. Westmeath
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaelscoil an Mhuilinn | 179 | −26% | Catholic | All in Irish | 1.9 km | |
| Mullingar Educate Together NS | 381 | −6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 2.4 km |
| Kilpatrick N.S. | 224 | −4% | Catholic | English | 4.9 km | |
| St. Colmcille's N.S. | 239 | −0% | Catholic | English | 5.1 km | |
| Loch an Ghair N.S. | 208 | −1% | Catholic | English | 5.9 km | |
| S N na nDun | 159 | +7% | Catholic | English | 6.1 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 83 | +0% | Catholic | English | 6.7 km | |
| Baile Coireil N.S. | 82 | −20% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| S.N. Phadraig | 74 | −20% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| Odhran Naofa N.S. | 95 | +10% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Milltownpass N.S. | 73 | +4% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Dysart N.S. | 24 | −35% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Dalystown N.S. | 81 | −16% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| S.N. Chruimin Naofa | 222 | +10% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Scoil Chroi Naofa | 214 | −12% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Diarmada N.S. | 90 | +11% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Naomh Iosef N.S. | 285 | +1% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Lochan an Bhealaigh N.S. | 57 | −11% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Scoil Phadraig | 88 | +1% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Naomh Tola N.S. | 219 | +4% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Mhichil Naofa N.S. | 81 | −4% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Ballynacargy Mixed N.S. | 55 | +0% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| Mhuire N.S. | 61 | −48% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Baile na gCailleach N S | 166 | +19% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| St. Anne's National School | 176 | +18% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Ballinagore Mixed N.S. | 97 | −5% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Castlepollard Paroc.n.s. | 25 | +19% | Church of Ireland | English | 17 km | |
| St Etchens National School | 413 | −23% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Castlepollard Mixed N.S. | 169 | +20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 17 km |
| St Feighans Mxd N.S. | 100 | −7% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| Earnain Mxd N.S. | 105 | −8% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| Rath Eoghan N.S. | 62 | +19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 19 km |
| S.N. Bhride | 8 | −74% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| Streamstown Mixed N.S. | 107 | −4% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| Boher N.S. | 18 | – | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| S.N. an Chuil | 14 | −71% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| Magh Mora N.S. | 29 | −19% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Naomh Tomas N.S. | 16 | −36% | Church of Ireland | English | ✓ | 20 km |
| S.N. Aodha Naofa | 27 | −41% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Scoil an Chlochair Cill Bheagan | 226 | −8% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Crowenstown N.S. | 12 | −50% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Fiontan | 29 | −44% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 22 km |
| Eoin Naofa N.S. | 100 | −9% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 24 km |
| Kilcrumreragh N.S. | 104 | +28% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Naomh Micheal N.S. | 17 | −19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 25 km |
| Cluain Maolain N.S. | 178 | −21% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| Naomh Muire N.S. | 12 | – | Catholic | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| Drumraney Mixed N.S. | 23 | −15% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| St Brigid's Primary School | 241 | +4% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Bl Oliver Plunkett N.S. | 80 | −20% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Tang N.S. | 117 | −6% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| Ard na gCraith NS | 110 | −15% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| An Ghrianan N.S. | 167 | −11% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| Naomh Clar N.S. | 293 | +7% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| Sc Ciarain | 227 | +21% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Cill Cleithe N.S. | 99 | −3% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Corr na Madadh N S | 306 | +16% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 39 km |
| Cluain Buinne N.S. | 164 | +34% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Ballinahown N.S. | 96 | +8% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Scoil na gCeithre Maistri | 235 | −20% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 41 km |
| S.N. an Cusan | 413 | −2% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| St Marys N.S. | 573 | +31% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| Athlone N.S. | 56 | −13% | Church of Ireland | English | 42 km | |
| St Peters N.S. Snr | 112 | −24% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| S.N. Phoil Naofa | 125 | −9% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| S.N. Deaghan O Ceallaigh | 77 | −28% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 43 km |
Living in Mullingar
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the N91 Eircode area
Housing in Mullingar →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 Mullingar
Cost of living in Mullingar →New tenancies in Mullingar averaged €1,216 a month in 2025, against €1,115 in 2024 (+9%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗Mullingar, N91 DX74
Primary schools near Scoil Cholmain Naofa
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Scoil Cholmain Naofa
Is Scoil Cholmain Naofa 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 Scoil Cholmain Naofa have?
445 pupils in 2025/26. That is −8% since 2019/20.
Does Scoil Cholmain Naofa teach through Irish?
No: Scoil Cholmain Naofa teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Scoil Cholmain Naofa?
Scoil Cholmain Naofa has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Meath.
How do pupils get a place at Scoil Cholmain Naofa?
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 Scoil Cholmain Naofa?
The nearest are S N na Naomh Uile (0.9 km), Presentation Convent (Jnr) (1 km) and Scoil na Maighdine Mhuire (1 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 Mullingar; 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).