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School planning area

Baltinglass

8 primary schools and 708 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Kildare and Wicklow.

Pupils in 2025/26
708
−8 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−5.3%
748 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
8
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
19.74
Average school size: 88.5

By county

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

Change over
Wicklow 7 688
−5.9%
Kildare 1 20
+17.6%

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 Kildare and Wicklow, schools with no planning area had 1.5% of pupils in 2015/16, 9.0% in 2005/06 and 23.5% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

708

−8 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

8

7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

88.5

60.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

19.74

−0.26 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. 74 in 2025/26, −19 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

4fell by 10% or more
3within 10%
1grew by 10% or more
Down 25% or more · 3Down 10 to 25% · 1Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 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
19.74
Mainstream classes
35
Classes of 30 or more
2
Schools with a class of 30+
2

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
35
Up 2 since 2006/07, while pupils fell 7%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 51
Estimate: 35 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 12 special education and 3 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
42
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 Baltinglass 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 1 of 8 schools. 2 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
3
In 1 school
Autism classes
3
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 2
  • 2021/22 2
  • 2022/23 2
  • 2023/24 3
  • 2024/25 3
  • 2025/26 3
  • 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

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 Naomh IosafBaltinglass 20039P Wicklow 393
+7.1%
16 23.50 30 1
S N Naomh BridKiltegan 18502A Wicklow 77
−21.4%
4 19.25 23 0
S N MuireBaltinglass 16027J Wicklow 67
−2.9%
3 22.33 30 1
Stratford Lodge NSBaltinglass 19339U Wicklow 67
−9.5%
3 22.33 27 0
Rathcoyle N SKiltegan 18434J Wicklow 50
−27.5%
3 16.67 20 0
Donaghmore N SDonard 12413R Wicklow 25
−32.4%
2 12.50 14 0
S N na Cloiche MoireRathvilly 14643V Kildare 20
+17.6%
2 10.00 10 0
Kiltegan N SKiltegan 12688K Wicklow 9
−47.1%
2 4.50 6 0