Education
Two third-level educational institutions - St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, founded under King George III in 1795 to educate Ireland's Roman Catholics, and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, separated from St. Patrick's College in 1997 — are located in the town. They share campus space and many facilities. NUI Maynooth is the only university in the Republic of Ireland not situated in a city. There is one secondary school (Maynooth Post Primary), and four primary schools: a girls' school, a boys' school, an Educate Together school, and an Irish-speaking school.
Kildare VEC has received patronage authority to build a second secondary school, albeit their desire is to split the existing one to senior and junior schools instead.
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