Photo: Original uploader was Sarah777 at en.wikipedia · Public domainSchools near Ballinaclash: none within 3 km
The nearest primary school is 3.4 km away. With no school results published in Ireland, and the Education Act 1998 restricting comparisons of them, these schools are described, not 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.
Post-primary schools within reach of Ballinaclash
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 Ballinaclash is Avondale Community College, an ETB school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avondale Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 644 | 3.5 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Ballinaclash beside the 224 other Irish towns of 200 to 400 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossbarry | 399 | 2 | 184 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Oola | 315 | 3 | 193 | 0 | 0% | 7.9 km |
| Mulranny | 315 | 1 | 77 | 0 | 100% | 11 km |
| Dromina | 312 | 1 | 69 | 0 | 100% | 7.7 km |
| Ailt An Chorráin | 311 | 2 | 84 | 1 | 100% | 4.4 km |
| Ballinaclash | 309 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.5 km |
| Anagaire | 309 | 3 | 177 | 3 | 100% | 8.1 km |
| Clonygowan | 308 | 1 | 124 | 0 | 0% | 5.8 km |
| Piercetown | 308 | 2 | 468 | 0 | 0% | 4 km |
| An Charraig | 308 | 2 | 269 | 1 | 100% | 0.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
Of the other 224 towns, 220 have more pupils at the schools around them than Ballinaclash. 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 Ballinaclash
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
Arklow has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Ballinaclash 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 Ballinaclash
How many schools are there in Ballinaclash?
None in Ballinaclash or within 3 km of it; the nearest primary school is 3.4 km away.
Are there schools in Ballinaclash that teach through Irish?
None in Ballinaclash or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Ballinaclash?
Not in Ballinaclash or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Avondale Community College, 3.5 km away.
What is the best school in Ballinaclash?
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 Ballinaclash?
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).