Photo: Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.0Pupil numbers around Coolgreany have fallen behind Co. Wexford’s towns and Irish towns: −14% since 2019/20
For Coolgreany, that is below both Co. Wexford’s towns (+5%) and Irish towns (+4%). Its schools have 191 pupils, 14% fewer than in 2019/20. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
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 Coolgreany’s schools
Fewer pupils than before
Pupil numbers at the schools here have fallen since 2019/20, against +5% across Ireland. Pupils over time ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Coolgreany 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 Coolgreany’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.
Pupil numbers around Coolgreany
Each September’s pupils at every school in or within 3 km of the town, counted where the school stands today.
The schools in and around Coolgreany had 218 pupils in 2015/16 and 191 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Coolgreany
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.
Who runs Coolgreany’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
2 of Coolgreany’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Archbishop of Dublin (2). 1 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Coolgreany
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 2 schools in and around Coolgreany teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Coolgreany’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.
| Share of pupils | Around Coolgreany | Co. Wexford | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 60% | 37% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 2% | 6% |
| Girls | 47% | 49% | 49% |
60% of the pupils around Coolgreany are at a DEIS school, more than the 27% across Ireland (37% in Co. Wexford). Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 0% against 6%. The largest DEIS school here is S.N. Cul Greine, with 115 pupils.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Cul GreinePrimary | 115 | 48% | ✓ | |
| S.N. Naomh PadraigPrimary | 76 | 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 Coolgreany
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, 0 of these 2 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.
The 2 schools in and around Coolgreany
Each school in or within 3 km of Coolgreany links to a page of its own. These schools carry no letter or result: Ireland doesn’t release them school by school.
Inspection reports for Coolgreany’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, 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 2 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. Cul GreinePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Naomh PadraigPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Coolgreany
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Families in Coolgreany have 4 post-primary schools within 10 km: 2 ETB schools and 2 voluntary secondary schools. Of these, 2 are single-sex: 1 for girls and 1 for boys. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenart CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 633 | 5.5 km |
| Arklow CBSVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 392 | 6 km |
| Gaelcholáiste na MaraETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 279 | 6.3 km |
| St Marys CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 527 | 6.4 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Coolgreany
No special school is in or near Coolgreany. 1 of the 2 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.
Coolgreany beside the 169 other Irish towns of 300 to 500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Crossbarry | 399 | 2 | 184 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| Corrandulla | 398 | 1 | 281 | 0 | 0% | 8.1 km |
| Creeslough | 398 | 3 | 225 | 1 | 100% | 12 km |
| Ballinalee | 395 | 1 | 145 | 0 | 0% | 9.8 km |
| Coolgreany | 395 | 2 | 191 | 0 | 50% | 5.5 km |
| Riverstown | 394 | 4 | 767 | 0 | 0% | 2.5 km |
| Geashill | 392 | 1 | 126 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Carrig on Bannow | 391 | 1 | 144 | 0 | 100% | 12 km |
| Shillelagh | 390 | 2 | 96 | 0 | 0% | 5.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 73 of the other 169 towns than around Coolgreany. 16 of the 170 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Coolgreany
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
Arklow has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. The roll around Coolgreany moved −14% since 2019/20; nearby, Gorey grew most (+10%) and Aughrim least (−18%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Coolgreany 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 Coolgreany
How many schools are there in Coolgreany?
In Coolgreany or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 191 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Coolgreany that teach through Irish?
None in Coolgreany or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Coolgreany?
Not in Coolgreany or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Glenart College, 5.5 km away.
What is the best school in Coolgreany?
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 Coolgreany?
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).