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School planning area

Ballyhaunis

8 primary schools and 961 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Mayo and Roscommon.

Pupils in 2025/26
961
−4 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+2.5%
938 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
8
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
20.11
Average school size: 120.1

By county

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

Change over
Mayo 5 790
+8.5%
Roscommon 3 171
−18.6%

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 Mayo and Roscommon, schools with no planning area had 10.5% of pupils in 2015/16, 16.8% in 2005/06 and 44.7% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

961

−4 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

8

7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

120.1

88.9 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

20.11

−0.08 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. 102 in 2025/26, −7 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

8 schools with figures for both years

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

Class sizes

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

Average class size
20.11
Mainstream classes
47
Classes of 30 or more
0
Schools with a class of 30+
0

Teachers

Teachers in the 8 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
47
Up 16 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 23%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 72
Estimate: 47 class teachers, 2 principals and deputies, 20 special education and 3 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
58
The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25
0 / 0
0 schools gained a class teacher, 0 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 Ballyhaunis planning area, and the special classes in the 8 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
3
In 2 of 8 schools. 1 in 2022/23
Allocated for 2026/27
4
In 2 schools: 1 new class
Autism classes
3
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2022/23

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

  • 2022/23 1
  • 2023/24 2
  • 2024/25 3
  • 2025/26 3
  • 2026/27 4

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

8 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 IosaBallyhaunis 20142I Mayo 385
+19.6%
20 18.75 24 0
Beacan Mixed N SClaremorris 13659I Mayo 177
+18.0%
7 25.29 27 0
S N BrighdeBallyhaunis 16756V Mayo 103
−9.6%
5 20.60 24 0
St Marys N SBallyhaunis 15030Q Mayo 93
−6.1%
4 23.25 25 0
Carrick Mixed N SBallinlough 16009H Roscommon 80
−4.8%
4 20.00 24 0
Granlahan G N SBallinlough 15664L Roscommon 46
+17.9%
2 20.00 21 0
Gorthaganny N SLoughglynn 16127N Roscommon 45
−48.3%
3 15.00 18 0
St Johns NSClaremorris 15539I Mayo 32
−25.6%
2 16.00 18 0