School planning area

Ballincollig

Name: Primary school enrolment in the Ballincollig planning area
Creator: Department of Education

9 primary schools and 3,369 pupils in 2025/26, in County Cork.

Pupils in 2025/26: 3,369; +6 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: +8.8%; 3,096 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 9; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 24.37; Average school size: 374.3

Trends in Ballincollig

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 County Cork, schools with no planning area had 3.2% of pupils in 2015/16, 8.7% in 2005/06 and 29.9% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

3,369

+6 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

374.3

221.5 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

24.37

+0.05 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. 402 in 2025/26, +3 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

Pupils in schools that teach all subjects through Irish (2 schools today). 929 pupils in 2025/26, 27.6% of the area's pupils, against 21.7% in 2015/16. Each school counts under its current classification for every year.

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

8 schools with figures for both years

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

2fell by 10% or more

3within 10%

3grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 0Down 10 to 25% · 2Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 3Up 25% or more · 0

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 205 pupils. It isn’t in the figures above.

Gaelscoil an ChaisleáinBaile an Chollaigh · opened 2017/18 205

Class sizes

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

Average class size: 24.37
Mainstream classes: 136
Classes of 30 or more: 11
Schools with a class of 30+: 6

Teachers

Teachers in the 9 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: 136; Up 45 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 32%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 205; Estimate: 136 class teachers, 10 principals and deputies, 48 special education and 11 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 158; 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

1 special school in the Ballincollig planning area, and the special classes in its 9 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools

Pupils in special schools: 68; In 1 school, the same as 68 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26: 11; In 6 of 9 schools. 3 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 11; In 6 schools
Autism classes: 10; 91% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

2020/21 3
2021/22 7
2022/23 8
2023/24 9
2024/25 9
2025/26 11
2026/27 11

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special schools in the Ballincollig planning area
Special school	Pupils	Since 2015/16	Teaching posts	SNAs
Our Lady of Good Counsel NSCork · Moderate general learning disability	68	0.0%	11	27

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

Schools

9 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
Gael Scoil Ui RiordainBaile an Chollaigh	19839R	724	+7.6%	30	23.53	32	2
Ovens N SOvens	17251T	466	+9.1%	18	25.89	30	1
Scoil BarraBallincollig	19771J	449	−15.1%	17	26.00	29	0
Scoil Naomh Mhuire CBallincollig	17755B	437	+5.6%	18	23.94	33	2
S N Naomh Eoin BBallincollig	17754W	352	−10.7%	16	22.00	29	0
S N Baile NoraWaterfall	18428O	328	+11.9%	13	25.23	33	3
Gogginshill N SBallinhassig	12263B	227	+12.4%	9	23.89	28	0
Gaelscoil an ChaisleáinBaile an Chollaigh	20500I	205	–	8	25.62	30	1
Clogheen MXD N SKerry Pike	12676D	181	+10.4%	7	24.14	33	2