Education
Navan has a number of secondary schools both private denominational and public inter-denominational and non-denominational. St. Patrick's Classical School is a Roman Catholic boys only school. St. Michael's Loreto Secondary School and St. Joseph's Secondary School at the Mercy Convent are both girls only Roman Catholic convent schools. Beaufort College is a large state owned inter-denominational vocational school. The Abylity College was a parent owned non-denominational school.
Navan and the surrounding area has a number of primary schools including town's Catholic boys' primary school Scoil Mhuire which was originally run by the De La Salle Brothers. Pierce Brosnan was a former pupil of St. Anne's Loreto which is situated beside St. Mary's Catholic Church and near to St. Joseph's Mercy.There are also St. Paul's, St. Ultan's, and St. Oliver's primary schools. Scoil Éanna is the town's oldest and largest Gaelscoil. The town's only Church of Ireland secondary school, Preston School, closed in the 1970s. It is now the site of the shopping centre in the town. There is a Church of Ireland primary school known as Flowerfield School, at Connolly Avenue, a new site. It was originally situated at the Flowerfield area of the town, on the main thoroughfare to Drogheda, in a building which has been sympathetically converted into private accommodation. There is also a multi-denominational Educate Together primary school in the town, sited at Commons Road.
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1813 | 3,802 | — |
| 1821 | 3,500 | −7.9% |
| 1831 | 4,416 | +26.2% |
| 1841 | 5,628 | +27.4% |
| 1851 | 3,979 | −29.3% |
| 1861 | 3,865 | −2.9% |
| 1871 | 4,104 | +6.2% |
| 1881 | 3,873 | −5.6% |
| 1891 | 3,963 | +2.3% |
| 1901 | 3,839 | −3.1% |
| 1911 | 3,934 | +2.5% |
| 1926 | 3,652 | −7.2% |
| 1936 | 4,123 | +12.9% |
| 1946 | 4,102 | −0.5% |
| 1951 | 4,271 | +4.1% |
| 1956 | 4,813 | +12.7% |
| 1961 | 5,255 | +9.2% |
| 1966 | 5,907 | +12.4% |
| 1971 | 6,665 | +12.8% |
| 1981 | 11,136 | +67.1% |
| 1986 | 11,929 | +7.1% |
| 1991 | 11,706 | −1.9% |
| 1996 | 12,810 | +9.4% |
| 2002 | 19,417 | +51.6% |
| 2006 | 24,851 | +28.0% |
| 2011 | 28,559 | +14.9% |
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