Most post-primaries around Adamstown take girls and boys: 0% are single-sex, below Co. Wexford’s towns and Irish towns
On this, Adamstown is below both Co. Wexford’s towns (55%) and Irish towns (39%). Pupils: 630, up 56% since 2019/20. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
Schools in the town or within 3 km of its outline, Department of Education lists for 2025/26; the Ireland figures cover all schools listed.
What stands out about Adamstown’s schools
Extra support for many schools
Many schools here are in DEIS, which gives schools in disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and help; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. In DEIS: Coláiste Abbáin (501) and S.N. Abbain (129). Who runs them ↓
More pupils every year
Pupil numbers at the schools here have grown faster than across Ireland (+5% since 2019/20), so classes and new places are a question worth asking. Pupils over time ↓
One school growing fast
The fastest-growing school here is Coláiste Abbáin: 293 pupils in 2019/20, 501 now. Getting a place ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Who runs Adamstown’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
1 of Adamstown’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Waterford & Wexford ETB (1) and Bishop of Ferns (1). 2 of the 2 are 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.
Pupil numbers around Adamstown
Pupils every September at the schools in or within 3 km of the town, each counted at today’s site.
The schools in and around Adamstown had 306 pupils in 2015/16 and 630 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Adamstown
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.
The 2 schools in and around Adamstown
Every school in Adamstown or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. There are no letters or results on these cards, because Ireland publishes none school by school.
Where the 2 schools in and around Adamstown 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 Adamstown’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 Adamstown
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 2 schools in and around Adamstown teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Adamstown’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Wexford’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 Adamstown | Co. Wexford | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 100% | 37% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 2% | 6% |
| Girls | 45% | 49% | 49% |
100% of the pupils around Adamstown are at a DEIS school, more than the 27% across Ireland (37% in Co. Wexford). The biggest difference from Ireland is in pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here, 6% there. Of the DEIS schools here, Coláiste Abbáin is the biggest: 501 pupils.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste AbbáinPost-primary · ETB | 501 | 45% | ✓ | |
| S.N. AbbainPrimary | 129 | 46% | ✓ |
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.
How children get a place in Adamstown
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
2 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 0 have shrunk by as much, out of 2; across Ireland: +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 Adamstown’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
Each school is visited by inspectors from time to time, for a whole-school evaluation of teaching, learning and leadership, for one subject, or to follow up earlier advice, and every report is posted on gov.ie with the school’s response.
The reports describe what inspectors saw and what each school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the 2 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Coláiste AbbáinPost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. AbbainPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Adamstown
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Adamstown is Coláiste Abbáin, an ETB school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste AbbáinETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 501 | 0.4 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Adamstown
No special school is in or near Adamstown. 1 of the 1 primary schools has 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.
Adamstown beside the 224 other Irish towns of 200 to 400 people
Towns of a similar size, with the schools in or within 3 km of each; ordered by population, never ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossbarry | 399 | 2 | 184 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ballysimon | 331 | 1 | 125 | 0 | 0% | 6 km |
| Clonroche | 329 | 1 | 107 | 0 | 100% | 6.3 km |
| Bansha | 329 | 1 | 75 | 0 | 100% | 7.1 km |
| Rosscahill | 327 | 1 | 261 | 0 | 0% | 7.7 km |
| Adamstown | 326 | 2 | 630 | 0 | 100% | 0.4 km |
| Farran | 326 | 1 | 149 | 0 | 0% | 5.5 km |
| Model Village or Dripsey | 323 | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0% | 3.6 km |
| Ballinagar | 321 | 2 | 319 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
| Gortnahoo | 321 | 1 | 132 | 0 | 100% | 8.3 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 18 of the other 224 towns than around Adamstown. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 17 of the 225.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Adamstown
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adamstown | 2 | 630 | 0 | 100% | 0.4 km |
| New Ross 16 km | 10 | 3,266 | 0 | 60% | 0.6 km |
| Enniscorthy 16 km | 9 | 3,951 | 2 | 44% | 0.9 km |
| Wexford 17 km | 16 | 6,749 | 1 | 25% | 0.5 km |
| Castlebridge 18 km | 3 | 459 | 0 | 0% | 5.1 km |
Enniscorthy has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Adamstown changed by +56%; among its neighbours, Castlebridge’s grew most (+10%) and New Ross’s least (−2%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Adamstown 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 Adamstown
How many schools are there in Adamstown?
In Adamstown or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school and 1 secondary school, with 630 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Adamstown that teach through Irish?
None in Adamstown 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 Adamstown?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Adamstown?
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 Adamstown?
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).