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School planning area

Blarney

8 primary schools and 2,192 pupils in 2025/26, in County Cork.

Pupils in 2025/26
2,192
+28 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+19.1%
1,841 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
8
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
23.18
Average school size: 274.0

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

2,192

+28 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

8

5 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

274.0

171.8 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

23.18

+0.29 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. 273 in 2025/26, +24 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). 195 pupils in 2025/26, 8.9% of the area's pupils, against 8.2% 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

7 schools with figures for both years

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

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

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 315 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
23.18
Mainstream classes
91
Classes of 30 or more
8
Schools with a class of 30+
5

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
91
Up 45 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 78%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 158
Estimate: 91 class teachers, 8 principals and deputies, 43 special education and 16 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
101
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 Blarney 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
16
In 7 of 8 schools. 9 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
17
In 7 schools: 1 new class
Autism classes
12
75% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 9
  • 2021/22 11
  • 2022/23 11
  • 2023/24 14
  • 2024/25 14
  • 2025/26 16
  • 2026/27 17

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
Cloghroe Mixed N SCloghroe 07242M 537
+0.4%
21 25.19 31 3
S N Padraig NaofaWhitechurch 17667E 324
−3.3%
13 24.92 29 0
Strawberry Hill National SchoolCork 20553G 315 – 17 17.59 22 0
Scoil Chroí ÍosaBlarney 20399W 286
−1.0%
12 23.25 36 1
S N Rath DubhGrenagh 08393P 197
−33.4%
8 21.75 30 1
Gaelscoil MhuscraíAn Bhlárna 20151J 195
+29.1%
7 26.29 32 2
Firmount Mixed N SDonoughmore 01692N 171
+18.8%
7 24.43 32 1
Vicarstown Mixed N SVicarstown 06342L 167
+83.5%
6 24.83 27 0