Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainMost post-primaries around Kilmuckridge take girls and boys: 0% are single-sex, below Co. Wexford’s towns and Irish towns
That leaves Kilmuckridge below both Co. Wexford’s towns (55%) and Irish towns (39%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, Coláiste an Átha, has 349 pupils. Nothing here grades or ranks these schools: Ireland publishes no results school by school, 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.
The 2 schools in and around Kilmuckridge
Each school in or within 3 km of Kilmuckridge links to a page of its own. Ireland publishes no results school by school, so these cards carry no letters or results.
Where the 2 schools in and around Kilmuckridge 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 Kilmuckridge’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 Kilmuckridge
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 2 schools in and around Kilmuckridge teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Kilmuckridge’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, 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 Kilmuckridge | Co. Wexford | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 64% | 37% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 2% | 6% |
| Girls | 46% | 49% | 49% |
More of the pupils around Kilmuckridge are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 64% against 27% (Co. Wexford: 37%). Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%. Coláiste an Átha, with 349 pupils, is the largest school here in DEIS.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste an ÁthaPost-primary · ETB | 349 | 44% | ✓ | |
| St Josephs N.S.Primary | 193 | 49% |
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 Kilmuckridge’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
1 of Kilmuckridge’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). 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.
How children get a place in Kilmuckridge
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
1 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 Kilmuckridge’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 |
|---|---|
| Coláiste an ÁthaPost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Josephs N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Kilmuckridge
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Kilmuckridge is Coláiste an Átha, an ETB school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste an ÁthaETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 349 | 0.2 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Kilmuckridge beside the 158 other Irish towns of 600 to 1,100 people
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km, listed by population: Ireland publishes no results, so none is ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buttevant | 1,080 | 2 | 802 | 0 | 100% | 0.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ballon | 801 | 1 | 239 | 0 | 0% | 7.5 km |
| Crinkill | 795 | 7 | 1,708 | 1 | 86% | 3.1 km |
| Doirí Beaga | 794 | 4 | 749 | 4 | 100% | 2.3 km |
| Corofin | 793 | 2 | 182 | 0 | 0% | 12 km |
| Kilmuckridge | 792 | 2 | 542 | 0 | 50% | 0.2 km |
| Roosky | 787 | 1 | 160 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Ardara | 785 | 5 | 167 | 2 | 80% | 8.6 km |
| Omeath | 778 | 2 | 136 | 0 | 50% | 11 km |
| Cappoquin | 778 | 1 | 189 | 0 | 100% | 6.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Na Dúnaibh | 601 | 2 | 202 | 1 | 100% | 14 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 48 of the other 158 towns than around Kilmuckridge. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 15 of the 159.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Kilmuckridge
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Kilmuckridge had 534 pupils in 2015/16 and 542 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Kilmuckridge
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 Kilmuckridge
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilmuckridge | 2 | 542 | 0 | 50% | 0.2 km |
| Courtown 14 km | 1 | 304 | 0 | 100% | 5.4 km |
| Ferns 17 km | 2 | 324 | 0 | 50% | 10 km |
| Castlebridge 18 km | 3 | 459 | 0 | 0% | 5.1 km |
| Gorey 19 km | 8 | 4,875 | 1 | 13% | 0.6 km |
Gorey has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Pupils around Kilmuckridge: +3% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Gorey led (+10%) and Courtown trailed (−16%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Kilmuckridge 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 Kilmuckridge
How many schools are there in Kilmuckridge?
In Kilmuckridge or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school and 1 secondary school, with 542 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Kilmuckridge that teach through Irish?
None in Kilmuckridge 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 Kilmuckridge?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Kilmuckridge?
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 Kilmuckridge?
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).