Editing Navan (section)

==Education==
[[File:Churchnavan.jpg|thumb|upright|[[St Mary's Church, Navan|St. Mary's Church]]]]
Navan has a number of secondary schools, including private [[denominational]] and public inter-denominational and non-denominational. [[St. Patrick's Classical School (Navan)|St. Patrick's Classical School]] is a [[Roman Catholic]] boys-only school. [[St. Michael's Loreto Secondary School (Navan)|Loreto Secondary School, St. Michael's]] at the Loreto Convent, and [[St. Joseph's Secondary School (Navan)|St. Joseph's Secondary School]] at the [[Sisters of Mercy|Mercy Convent]] are both girls-only Roman Catholic [[convent school]]s. Coláiste na Mí is a [[Vocational Education Committee|VEC]]-run school in Johnstown that opened in 2013. Beaufort College is a large state-owned inter-denominational [[Vocational education|vocational]] school. The Abylity Secondary College was a parent-owned fee-paying non-denominational school.<ref name="DoE2006">{{cite web
| url = http://www.education.ie/servlet/blobservlet/ppschools_epl.xls
| title = School Details for all open Post Primary Schools in Ireland
| access-date = 2 May 2007
| year = 2006
| format = XLS
| publisher = Department of Education and Science (Ireland)
| archive-date = 4 March 2006
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060304074031/http://www.education.ie/servlet/blobservlet/ppschools_epl.xls
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}}</ref><ref name="DroghedaIndependent15-06-01">
{{cite news
| title = Smith Duff appointed
| url = http://www.unison.ie/drogheda_independent/stories.php3?ca=41&si=456415&issue_id=4692
| work = Drogheda Independent
| publisher = Independent Newspapers (Ireland)
| date = 15 June 2001
| access-date = 2 May 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062350/http://www.unison.ie/drogheda_independent/stories.php3?ca=41&si=456415&issue_id=4692 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 4 March 2016}}</ref>

Navan and the surrounding area have a number of primary schools, including the town's Catholic boys' primary school, Scoil Mhuire, which was originally run by the [[De La Salle Brothers]]. [[Pierce Brosnan]] is a former pupil of St. Anne's Loreto, which is situated beside [[St Mary's Church, Navan|St. Mary's Catholic Church]] and near St. Joseph's Mercy. There are also St. Paul's, St. Stephen's, St. Ultan's, and St. Oliver's primary schools. Scoil Éanna is the town's only [[gaelscoil]]. The town's only [[Church of Ireland]] secondary school, [[John Preston (Alderman)|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, on the Trim Rd., a new site. It was originally situated at the Flowerfield area of the town, on the main thoroughfare to Drogheda, in a building that has been sympathetically converted into private accommodation. There is also a multi-denominational [[Educate Together]] primary school in the town, sited at Commons Road.