Photo: sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0No secondary school in or near Oulart: the nearest is 7 km away
Teaching through Irish: 0% of the schools around Oulart, below both Co. Wexford’s towns (6%) and Irish towns (8%). Its primary schools are small ones: 101 pupils each on average, against 175 across Ireland. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
Counted from the Department of Education’s 2025/26 lists: every school in the town or within 3 km of it, against every school in Ireland.
Where the 3 schools in and around Oulart 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 Oulart’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.
The 3 schools in and around Oulart
Every school in Oulart or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Results by school aren’t published in Ireland, so the cards carry none.
Teaching through Irish in and around Oulart
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 3 schools in and around Oulart teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Oulart’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 Oulart | Co. Wexford | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 50% | 37% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 2% | 6% |
| Girls | 42% | 49% | 49% |
Around Oulart, 50% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 37% in Co. Wexford. Where this area differs most from Ireland is girls, at 42% against 49%. Ballaghkeene N.S., with 150 pupils, is the largest school here in DEIS.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oulart N.S.Primary | 120 | 50% | ||
| Kilnamanagh Community National SchoolPrimary | 32 | 34% | ||
| Ballaghkeene N.S.Primary | 150 | 37% | ✓ |
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 Oulart’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
2 of Oulart’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Ferns (2) and Waterford & Wexford ETB (1). 1 of the 3 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.
The 2 patrons of Oulart’s schools
Patrons own the schools and set their ethos; boards of management run them day to day.
2 patrons run the 3 schools around Oulart; the largest, Bishop of Ferns, has 2 of them and 89% of the pupils. An Education and Training Board runs one of them.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of FernsBallaghkeene, Oulart | Catholic | 2 | 270 |
| Waterford & Wexford ETBKilnamanagh Community | Multi-denominational | 1 | 32 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Oulart
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
Between 2019/20 and now, 1 of the 2 grew by 5% or more and 1 shrank as much, while Ireland’s pupil numbers moved +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 Oulart’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
The Inspectorate inspects schools in several ways: a whole-school evaluation covers teaching, learning and how the school is led; a subject inspection looks at one subject; a follow-through checks on earlier advice. Reports go on gov.ie with the school’s reply.
Reports say what inspectors found and what should improve, without an overall grade, so none appears here; each of the 3 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Oulart N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Kilnamanagh Community National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Ballaghkeene 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 Oulart
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Oulart 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 | 7 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Oulart
No special school is in or near Oulart. 1 of the 3 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.
Oulart beside the 169 other Irish towns of 300 to 500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Baile Mhic Íre | 366 | 2 | 349 | 2 | 0% | 0.4 km |
| Clonard | 364 | 1 | 63 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Fethard | 363 | 1 | 237 | 0 | 0% | 7.8 km |
| Kilmainhamwood | 362 | 1 | 118 | 0 | 100% | 5.4 km |
| Oulart | 362 | 3 | 302 | 0 | 33% | 7 km |
| Banteer | 362 | 1 | 190 | 0 | 0% | 5.3 km |
| Spa | 362 | 1 | 230 | 0 | 0% | 4.5 km |
| Golden | 362 | 2 | 197 | 0 | 0% | 6.5 km |
| Shrule | 362 | 2 | 112 | 0 | 0% | 6.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
Of the other 169 towns, 44 have more pupils at the schools around them than Oulart. Within 3 km, 16 of these 170 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Oulart
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 Oulart had 325 pupils in 2015/16 and 302 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Oulart
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 Oulart
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oulart | 3 | 302 | 0 | 33% | 7 km |
| Ferns 12 km | 2 | 324 | 0 | 50% | 10 km |
| Enniscorthy 13 km | 9 | 3,951 | 2 | 44% | 0.9 km |
| Castlebridge 14 km | 3 | 459 | 0 | 0% | 5.1 km |
| Courtown 18 km | 1 | 304 | 0 | 100% | 5.4 km |
Enniscorthy has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Oulart changed by −5%; among its neighbours, Castlebridge’s grew most (+10%) and Courtown’s least (−16%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Oulart 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 Oulart
How many schools are there in Oulart?
In Oulart or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, with 302 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Oulart that teach through Irish?
None in Oulart or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Oulart?
Not in Oulart or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Coláiste an Átha, 7 km away.
What is the best school in Oulart?
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 Oulart?
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).