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School planning area

Ballinamore

7 primary schools and 653 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Cavan and Leitrim.

Pupils in 2025/26
653
−9 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+45.8%
448 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
7
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.50
Average school size: 93.3

By county

This planning area crosses county lines. Select a county to see its part of the area.

Change over
Leitrim 6 606
+46.4%
Cavan 1 47
+38.2%

Each year counts the schools in this planning area today, plus any that closed from 2023/24. Dotted lines bridge 1983/84 to 1992/93. 1974/75 is left out because that year's source file is missing five counties.

Earlier years are incomplete

The Department's files only record planning areas from 2023/24, so schools that closed or amalgamated before then aren't counted in any area. The further back you go, the more pupils are missing, and an amalgamation can look like a sudden rise. Across Counties Cavan and Leitrim, schools with no planning area had 1.2% of pupils in 2015/16, 7.0% in 2005/06 and 35.4% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

653

−9 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

7

4 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

93.3

76.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.50

−0.40 on 2024/25

2006/072025/26

Pupils in these schools

Junior infants, girls and boys, and Irish-medium schools over time, for the same schools as the trends above.

Area figures by year (CSV) Each school by year (CSV)

Junior infants

Pupils starting school each year. Class-by-class figures start in 2020/21. 78 in 2025/26, +4 on 2024/25.

Girls and boys

From 1976/77: earlier files don't split every school's pupils into girls and boys.

Irish-medium schools

No school in this area teaches all subjects through Irish.

Growing and falling since 2015/16

Each school's change in pupils over 10 years, from 2015/16 to 2025/26. A change of 10% or more either way counts as growing or falling.

Every school's change

6 schools with figures for both years

Schools still filling their classes in 2015/16, and schools opened since, are listed separately.

3fell by 10% or more
2within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 2Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 25% or more · 1

Sort the table below by the change column to see which schools grew or fell most.

Newer schools

1 school still filling its classes in 2015/16 or opened since, with 237 pupils. It isn’t in the figures above.

Class sizes

Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.

Average class size
21.50
Mainstream classes
30
Classes of 30 or more
4
Schools with a class of 30+
2

Teachers

Teachers in the 7 mainstream primary schools here, 2006/07 to 2025/26. Class teachers are counted every year; all teaching posts where they're known.

How we count teachers
Class teachers in 2025/26
30
Up 11 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 50%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 46
Estimate: 30 class teachers, 2 principals and deputies, 12 special education and 2 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
28
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
1 / 1
1 school gained a class teacher, 1 lost one

Class teachers since 2006/07

One for each mainstream class, every school year

Special schools and special classes

0 special schools in the Ballinamore planning area, and the special classes in the 7 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools
Pupils in special schools
0
No special school here
Special classes in 2025/26
2
In 1 of 7 schools. 1 in 2022/23
Allocated for 2026/27
3
In 2 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
2
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2022/23

In the Ballinamore planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

  • 2022/23 1
  • 2023/24 1
  • 2024/25 1
  • 2025/26 2
  • 2026/27 3

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Sources: Department of Education enrolment lists; NCSE special class lists and special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).

Schools

7 schools, largest first. A dash in the change column means the school had no pupils recorded in that year, usually because it opened later or took a new roll number after an amalgamation.

Change over

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Roll number
Scoil Chlann NaofaBallinamore 20483L Leitrim 237 – 9 26.33 32 3
St BridsCarrick-on-Shannon 19519W Leitrim 142
−16.0%
6 22.33 24 0
Naomh CaillinFenagh 15194A Leitrim 115
+6.5%
5 23.00 32 1
Achadh na SileannBallinamore 19365V Leitrim 47
−29.9%
3 15.67 19 0
St Patrick's NSC/O Belturbet Post Office 06998Q Cavan 47
+38.2%
3 15.67 20 0
S N Naomh Mhuirevia Cavan 19600F Leitrim 35
−16.7%
2 17.50 20 0
Aughawillan NSGaradice 16932P Leitrim 30
+7.1%
2 15.00 18 0