Photo: Simon Mortimer · CC BY-SA 2.0No secondary school in or near Barndarrig: the nearest is 8.4 km away
Every subject is taught through Irish at 0% of the schools around Barndarrig, below both Co. Wicklow’s towns (9%) and Irish towns (8%). Every one of its 2 schools within 3 km has a Catholic ethos. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
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 Barndarrig’s schools
A wide choice at twelve
Within 10 km of the town there are 5 post-primary schools to choose from, of different kinds; each sets its own admission policy, and many families apply to several. The nearest: Avondale Community College (8.4 km), Coláiste Chill Mhantáin (8.9 km) and Dominican College (9 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 Barndarrig 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 Barndarrig’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.
Who runs Barndarrig’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
2 of Barndarrig’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Archbishop of Dublin (2). None of the 2 is 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 schools in and around Barndarrig
Each school in or within 3 km of Barndarrig links to a page of its own. No letters, no results: Irish schools aren’t ranked one by one.
Teaching through Irish in and around Barndarrig
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Barndarrig teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Barndarrig’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Wicklow’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Barndarrig | Co. Wicklow | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 23% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 6% | 6% |
| Girls | 46% | 49% | 49% |
0% of the pupils around Barndarrig are at a DEIS school, fewer than the 27% across Ireland (23% in Co. Wicklow). Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Muire MxdPrimary | 37 | 41% | ||
| Scoil San EoinPrimary | 37 | 51% |
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 Barndarrig
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, 1 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 Barndarrig’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
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. Muire MxdPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil San EoinPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Barndarrig
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Families in Barndarrig have 5 post-primary schools within 10 km: 2 ETB schools, 2 voluntary secondary schools and one comprehensive school. Only one teaches girls and boys apart. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avondale Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 644 | 8.4 km |
| Coláiste Chill MhantáinETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 995 | 8.9 km |
| Dominican CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 461 | 9 km |
| Wicklow Educate Together Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 404 | 9.1 km |
| East Glendalough SchoolComprehensive · Church of Ireland | Girls and boys | – | 365 | 9.5 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Barndarrig
No special school is in or near Barndarrig. 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.
Barndarrig beside the 128 other Irish towns of 200 to 300 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Redcross | 256 | 1 | 37 | 0 | 0% | 8 km |
| Ballyhogue | 255 | 2 | 246 | 0 | 50% | 6.9 km |
| Eyrecourt | 254 | 1 | 45 | 0 | 100% | 10 km |
| An Spidéal | 254 | 2 | 441 | 2 | 0% | 0.3 km |
| Barndarrig | 253 | 2 | 74 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| Halfway | 252 | 2 | 385 | 0 | 0% | 9.4 km |
| Monamolin | 250 | 1 | 107 | 0 | 0% | 6.4 km |
| Clonegall | 249 | 2 | 233 | 0 | 0% | 4.3 km |
| Templetuohy | 249 | 1 | 77 | 0 | 100% | 7.2 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
Of these 128 other towns, 103 count more pupils at their schools than Barndarrig. 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.
Pupil numbers around Barndarrig
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 Barndarrig had 119 pupils in 2015/16 and 74 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Barndarrig
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 Barndarrig
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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Barndarrig 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 Barndarrig
How many schools are there in Barndarrig?
In Barndarrig or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 74 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Barndarrig that teach through Irish?
None in Barndarrig or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Barndarrig?
Not in Barndarrig or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Avondale Community College, 8.4 km away.
What is the best school in Barndarrig?
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 Barndarrig?
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).