Photo: sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Kilpedder, only 0% of schools teach through Irish, fewer than around Co. Wicklow’s towns or Irish towns
That puts Kilpedder below both Co. Wicklow’s towns (9%) and Irish towns (8%). 4 of its 9 schools are multi- or inter-denominational, against 14% across Ireland. 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.
What stands out about Kilpedder’s schools
More pupils every year
Pupil numbers at the schools here have grown faster than across Ireland (+5% since 2019/20), so classes and new places are a question worth asking. Pupils over time ↓
A choice beyond the church schools
Most schools in Ireland have a church patron; here more of them are multi- or inter-denominational than in most places (14% across Ireland). They are Colaiste Chraobh Abhann (778), Greystones Community College (765), Greystones Community NS (412) and Woodstock Educate Together N.S. (150). Who runs them ↓
A wide choice at twelve
Within 10 km of the town there are 7 post-primary schools to choose from, of different kinds; each sets its own admission policy, and many families apply to several. The nearest: Colaiste Chraobh Abhann (3 km), Greystones Community College (3.3 km) and Temple Carrig Secondary School (4.8 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Few schools in DEIS
Only 1 of the 9 schools here are in DEIS, the programme of extra teachers and money for schools serving disadvantaged areas; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. The one in DEIS: Newtownmountkennedy Primary School (368). Who goes there ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Pupil numbers around Kilpedder
Each September’s pupils at every school in or within 3 km of the town, counted where the school stands today.
The schools in and around Kilpedder had 2,510 pupils in 2015/16 and 3,990 in 2025/26. Greystones Community NS grew most: +91% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Kilpedder
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 Kilpedder’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
4 of Kilpedder’s 9 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Archbishop of Dublin (3), Kildare & Wicklow ETB (3) and Educate Together (1). 1 of the 9 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 9 schools in and around Kilpedder
Every school in Kilpedder or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. No letters, no results: Irish schools aren’t ranked one by one.
Where the 9 schools in and around Kilpedder 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 Kilpedder’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 Kilpedder
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 9 schools in and around Kilpedder teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Kilpedder’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against Co. Wicklow’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 Kilpedder | Co. Wicklow | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 9% | 23% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 6% | 6% |
| Girls | 48% | 49% | 49% |
| Post-primary pupils at single-sex schools | 0% | 20% | 29% |
| Post-primary pupils at fee-paying schools | 0% | 4% | 6% |
Around Kilpedder, 9% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 23% in Co. Wicklow. The biggest difference from Ireland is in post-primary pupils at single-sex schools: 0% here, 29% there. Of the DEIS schools here, Newtownmountkennedy Primary School is the biggest: 368 pupils.
Each of the 9 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodstock Educate Together N.S.Primary | 150 | 45% | ||
| Newtownmountkennedy Primary SchoolPrimary | 368 | 48% | ✓ | |
| Kilcoole Primary SchoolPrimary | 553 | 48% | ||
| St Catherines Special SchoolSpecial | 89 | 29% | ||
| Delgany N.S.Primary | 209 | 50% | ||
| Greystones Community NSPrimary | 412 | 50% | ||
| Colaiste Chraobh AbhannPost-primary · ETB | 778 | 49% | ||
| Greystones Community CollegePost-primary · ETB | 765 | 47% | ||
| St Laurences N.S.Primary | 666 | 50% |
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.
The 5 patrons of Kilpedder’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
Of the 9 schools around Kilpedder, 3 have Kildare & Wicklow ETB as patron, teaching 49% of the pupils; 5 patrons in all. The local Education and Training Board runs 3. Educate Together runs one.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kildare & Wicklow ETBColaiste Chraobh Abhann, Greystones, Greystones Community NS | Multi-denominational | 3 | 1,955 |
| Archbishop of DublinSt Laurences, Kilcoole Primary School, Newtownmountkennedy Primary School | Catholic | 3 | 1,587 |
| Archbishop of Dublin & Bishop of Glendalough COIDelgany | Church of Ireland | 1 | 209 |
| Educate TogetherWoodstock Educate Together | Multi-denominational | 1 | 150 |
| St Catherine's AssociationSt Catherines Special School | Catholic | 1 | 89 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Kilpedder
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
Since 2019/20, 1 of these 6 schools have grown by 5% or more and 2 have shrunk as much; across Ireland the number of pupils changed by +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 Kilpedder’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 9 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Woodstock Educate Together N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Newtownmountkennedy Primary SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Kilcoole Primary SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Catherines Special SchoolSpecial | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Delgany N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Greystones Community NSPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Colaiste Chraobh AbhannPost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Greystones Community CollegePost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Laurences 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 Kilpedder
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
Families in Kilpedder have 7 post-primary schools within 10 km: 4 voluntary secondary schools, 2 ETB schools and one community school. Of these, 2 are single-sex: 1 for girls and 1 for boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colaiste Chraobh AbhannETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 778 | 3 km |
| Greystones Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 765 | 3.3 km |
| Temple Carrig Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Church of Ireland | Girls and boys | – | 931 | 4.8 km |
| St David's Holy Faith SecondaryVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 792 | 4.8 km |
| St. Kilian's Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 427 | 8.3 km |
| Presentation CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 667 | 8.9 km |
| Loreto Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 747 | 9.4 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Kilpedder
St Catherines Special School is the special school here, with 89 pupils. 3 of the 6 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.
Kilpedder beside the 124 other Irish towns of 900 to 1,700 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tullyallen | 1,697 | 1 | 411 | 0 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Greencastle | 1,268 | 5 | 1,100 | 1 | 40% | 4 km |
| Portrane | 1,262 | 11 | 5,394 | 2 | 9% | 2.2 km |
| Clifden | 1,259 | 2 | 730 | 0 | 100% | 1.2 km |
| Killybegs | 1,258 | 5 | 697 | 0 | 80% | 0.5 km |
| Kilpedder | 1,248 | 9 | 3,990 | 0 | 11% | 3 km |
| Whitegate | 1,248 | 2 | 391 | 0 | 0% | 5.2 km |
| An Clochán Liath | 1,247 | 3 | 825 | 0 | 100% | 0.6 km |
| Kilmacanogue | 1,240 | 11 | 2,706 | 1 | 18% | 2.2 km |
| Croom | 1,240 | 2 | 990 | 0 | 100% | 1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Clarinbridge | 905 | 2 | 451 | 0 | 0% | 5.5 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 5 of the other 124 towns than around Kilpedder. 14 of the 125 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Kilpedder
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilpedder | 9 | 3,990 | 0 | 11% | 3 km |
| Newtownmountkennedy 2.8 km | 5 | 1,475 | 0 | 20% | 3.6 km |
| Kilcoole 3.1 km | 8 | 3,046 | 0 | 0% | 0.6 km |
| Greystones-Delgany 3.5 km | 13 | 7,013 | 1 | 0% | 0.8 km |
| Newcastle 5.1 km | 5 | 1,475 | 0 | 20% | 3.1 km |
| Kilmacanogue 6.8 km | 11 | 2,706 | 1 | 18% | 2.2 km |
| Bray 9.3 km | 30 | 9,081 | 4 | 27% | 0.7 km |
Bray has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 4. Of Kilpedder’s neighbours, Kilcoole saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+52%) and Kilmacanogue the least (−3%); Kilpedder itself: +35%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Kilpedder 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 Kilpedder
How many schools are there in Kilpedder?
In Kilpedder or within 3 km of it: 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 1 special school, with 3,990 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Kilpedder that teach through Irish?
None in Kilpedder 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 Kilpedder?
No: all 2 secondary schools here are free.
What is the best school in Kilpedder?
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 Kilpedder?
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).