The schools around Killurin have fewer pupils than in 2019/20: −30%, below Co. Wexford’s towns and Irish towns
In the comparison, Killurin comes below both Co. Wexford’s towns (+5%) and Irish towns (+4%). Its schools have 157 pupils, 30% 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.
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.
What stands out about Killurin’s schools
Fewer pupils than before
Pupil numbers at the schools here have fallen since 2019/20, against +5% across Ireland. Pupils over time ↓
A wide choice at twelve
Families here can choose among 7 post-primary schools within 10 km of the town, of more than one kind; each admits on its own published policy, so applying to more than one is common. The nearest: Selskar College (Coláiste Sheilscire) (9.3 km), Coláiste Abbáin (9.3 km) and St Peter's College (9.4 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Killurin 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 Killurin’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 Killurin
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Killurin had 258 pupils in 2015/16 and 157 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Killurin
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 Killurin’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
2 of Killurin’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Ferns (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 Killurin
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Killurin teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Killurin’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against Co. Wexford’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Killurin | Co. Wexford | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 12% | 37% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 2% | 6% |
| Girls | 54% | 49% | 49% |
12% of the pupils around Killurin are at a DEIS school, fewer 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. Mhuire, with 19 pupils.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. an GhleannaPrimary | 138 | 57% | ||
| S.N. MhuirePrimary | 19 | 32% | ✓ |
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 Killurin
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
0 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 2 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.
The 2 schools in and around Killurin
Each school in or within 3 km of Killurin links to a page of its own. There are no letters or results on these cards, because Ireland publishes none school by school.
Inspection reports for Killurin’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| S.N. an GhleannaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. MhuirePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Killurin
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
7 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Killurin: 5 voluntary secondary schools and 2 ETB schools. Of these, 4 are single-sex: 2 for girls and 2 for boys. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selskar College (Coláiste Sheilscire)ETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 376 | 9.3 km |
| Coláiste AbbáinETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 501 | 9.3 km |
| St Peter's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 782 | 9.4 km |
| Loreto Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 930 | 9.6 km |
| Presentation Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 996 | 9.8 km |
| Meanscoil GharmanVoluntary secondary · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 205 | 9.8 km |
| Christian Brothers Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 732 | 10 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Killurin beside the 128 other Irish towns of 200 to 300 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Pallasgreen | 229 | 1 | 113 | 0 | 0% | 7.5 km |
| Knocklong | 229 | 1 | 72 | 0 | 100% | 4.5 km |
| Inagh | 228 | 1 | 150 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Ballyforan | 227 | 1 | 59 | 0 | 100% | 6.8 km |
| Killurin | 223 | 2 | 157 | 0 | 50% | 9.3 km |
| Ballymacoda | 223 | 1 | 325 | 0 | 0% | 8.1 km |
| Bridebridge | 223 | 2 | 626 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Dunhill | 223 | 2 | 259 | 0 | 0% | 7.2 km |
| Ballinameen | 223 | 1 | 47 | 0 | 0% | 8.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
Of these 128 other towns, 48 count more pupils at their schools than Killurin. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 7 of the 129.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Killurin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Killurin | 2 | 157 | 0 | 50% | 9.3 km |
| Castlebridge 9.1 km | 3 | 459 | 0 | 0% | 5.1 km |
| Wexford 9.4 km | 16 | 6,749 | 1 | 25% | 0.5 km |
| Enniscorthy 13 km | 9 | 3,951 | 2 | 44% | 0.9 km |
| Rosslare 18 km | 3 | 512 | 0 | 100% | 8.7 km |
Enniscorthy has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. The roll around Killurin moved −30% since 2019/20; nearby, Castlebridge grew most (+10%) and Rosslare least (−17%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Killurin 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 Killurin
How many schools are there in Killurin?
In Killurin or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 157 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Killurin that teach through Irish?
None in Killurin or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Killurin?
Not in Killurin or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Selskar College (Coláiste Sheilscire), 9.3 km away.
What is the best school in Killurin?
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 Killurin?
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).