School planning area
Bandon
15 primary schools and 2,533 pupils in 2025/26, in County Cork.
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 2,533
- −58 on 2024/25
- Since 2015/16
- −6.1%
- 2,697 pupils in 2015/16
- Schools
- 15
- No change on 2024/25
- Average class size
- 22.40
- Average school size: 168.9
Trends in Bandon
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.
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
2,533
−58 on 2024/25
Schools
15
13 in 1975/76
Average pupils per school
168.9
127.0 in 1975/76
Average class size
22.40
−0.14 on 2024/25
Pupils in these schools
Junior infants, girls and boys, and Irish-medium schools over time, for the same schools as the trends above.
Junior infants
Pupils starting school each year. Class-by-class figures start in 2020/21. 299 in 2025/26, +43 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 (1 school today). 157 pupils in 2025/26, 6.2% of the area's pupils, against 5.7% 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.
14 schools with figures for both years
Schools still filling their classes in 2015/16, and schools opened since, are listed separately.
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 401 pupils. It isn’t in the figures above.
- Bandon Primary SchoolBandon · figures start 2024/25 401
Class sizes
Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to.
- Average class size
- 22.40
- Mainstream classes
- 109
- Classes of 30 or more
- 7
- Schools with a class of 30+
- 6
Teachers
Teachers in the 15 mainstream primary schools here, 2006/07 to 2025/26. Class teachers are counted every year; all teaching posts where they're known.
- Class teachers in 2025/26
- 109
- Up 20 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 11%
- Teaching posts in 2025/26
- about 187
- Estimate: 109 class teachers, 11 principals and deputies, 48 special education and 19 special class teachers
- Teachers in 2015/16
- 152
- The Department's last count of every teacher
- Since 2024/25
- 0 / 2
- 0 schools gained a class teacher, 2 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 Bandon planning area, and the special classes in the 15 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.
- Pupils in special schools
- 0
- No special school here
- Special classes in 2025/26
- 19
- In 7 of 15 schools. 4 in 2020/21
- Allocated for 2026/27
- 21
- In 8 schools: 2 new classes, 1 school with its first
- Autism classes
- 16
- 84% of special classes
Special classes since 2020/21
In the Bandon planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists
- 2020/21 4
- 2021/22 6
- 2022/23 8
- 2023/24 10
- 2024/25 18
- 2025/26 19
- 2026/27 21
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
15 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.
Select a column heading to sort
| Roll number | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bandon Primary SchoolBandon | 20586V | 401 | ––– | 16 | 22.81 | 30 | 1 |
| S N Inis EoghanainCo.Chorcaí | 17168J | 295 |
−3.3%
+2.4%
+10.5%
|
12 | 23.83 | 31 | 1 |
| Kilbrittain Mixed N SKilbrittain | 14116V | 211 |
+7.1%
+17.2%
+32.7%
|
8 | 23.38 | 29 | 0 |
| Newcestown N SBandon | 19348V | 196 |
−16.6%
−9.3%
+16.7%
|
8 | 23.62 | 32 | 1 |
| St Marys Central SchoolEnniskeane | 19595P | 189 |
−8.3%
−1.6%
+8.0%
|
8 | 23.62 | 28 | 0 |
| Scoil BhrideBandon | 13375R | 187 |
−12.6%
−15.0%
−9.2%
|
8 | 23.38 | 29 | 0 |
| Laragh N SBandon | 05477G | 174 |
−4.9%
+8.8%
+50.0%
|
8 | 21.75 | 30 | 1 |
| S N Droichead na BandanBandon | 18431D | 170 |
−19.8%
−18.7%
+3.0%
|
8 | 21.25 | 28 | 0 |
| Ballyheeda N SBallinhassig | 15550T | 158 |
−1.9%
−7.1%
+22.5%
|
6 | 25.33 | 31 | 1 |
| Gaelscoil Droichead na BanndanDroichead na Banndan | 20025E | 157 |
−8.7%
+1.9%
+28.7%
|
8 | 19.62 | 23 | 0 |
| S N Cnoc an BhileInnishannon | 04152T | 141 |
−5.4%
−9.6%
+69.9%
|
6 | 23.50 | 30 | 2 |
| Ballinadee N SBandon | 09537S | 95 |
−29.6%
−33.1%
−2.1%
|
4 | 23.75 | 26 | 0 |
| S N Garran an EasaighP72 Yp78 | 18491V | 60 |
−1.6%
−3.2%
+20.0%
|
3 | 20.00 | 25 | 0 |
| Castlealack N SBandon | 08972I | 56 |
+1.8%
−21.1%
+12.0%
|
3 | 15.67 | 20 | 0 |
| S N an GharrainInnishannon | 18020F | 43 |
−12.2%
+2.4%
−40.3%
|
3 | 14.33 | 17 | 0 |
No schools match that filter.
Closed schools counted here
These schools closed after the Department started recording planning areas in 2023/24, so their earlier pupils are included in the trends above.
| School | Roll number | Last year | Pupils that year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bandon Boys NSBandon | 19977G | 2023/24 | 186 |
| Presentation ConventBandon | 05257P | 2023/24 | 196 |