School planning area

Booterstown–Blackrock

Name: Primary school enrolment in the Booterstown–Blackrock planning area
Creator: Department of Education

6 primary schools and 1,947 pupils in 2025/26, in County Dublin.

Pupils in 2025/26: 1,947; −41 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: +0.6%; 1,936 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 6; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 24.49; Average school size: 324.5

Trends in Booterstown–Blackrock

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 Dublin, schools with no planning area had 1.5% of pupils in 2015/16, 5.3% in 2005/06 and 36.8% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,947

−41 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

4 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

324.5

269.0 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

24.49

−0.21 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. 243 in 2025/26, −17 on 2024/25.

Girls and boys

From 1977/78: 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

6 schools with figures for both years

2fell by 10% or more

3within 10%

1grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 1Down 10 to 25% · 1Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 25% or more · 1

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: 24.49
Mainstream classes: 79
Classes of 30 or more: 3
Schools with a class of 30+: 2

Teachers

Teachers in the 6 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: 79; Up 13 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 11%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 114; Estimate: 79 class teachers, 6 principals and deputies, 27 special education and 2 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 104; The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25: 0 / 1; 0 schools 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 Booterstown–Blackrock planning area, and the special classes in its 6 mainstream schools. Special schools aren't counted in the pupils, class sizes or teachers above.

All special schools

Pupils in special schools: 35; In 1 school, down from 41 in 2015/16
Special classes in 2025/26: 2; In 2 of 6 schools. 1 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 6; In 5 schools: 4 new classes, 3 schools with their first
Autism classes: 2; 100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In the Booterstown–Blackrock planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

2020/21 1
2021/22 1
2022/23 1
2023/24 2
2024/25 2
2025/26 2
2026/27 6

2026/27, dashed: allocated for next year.

Special schools in the Booterstown–Blackrock planning area
Special school	Pupils	Since 2015/16	Teaching posts	SNAs
Benincasa Special SchoolBlackrock · Emotional and behavioural difficulties	35	−14.6%	8	20

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

Schools

6 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
Carysfort NSBlackrock	14586M	583	+7.0%	24	24.29	29	0
S N San TreasaMount Merrion	18647D	430	−5.7%	16	26.88	29	0
Islamic National SchoolDublin 14	19949B	414	+39.9%	17	24.00	30	1
Our Lady of Mercy Convent SchoolBooterstown	17970F	247	+1.2%	10	24.70	30	2
Booterstown BoysBlackrock	06200O	188	−35.4%	8	22.75	29	0
Booterstown N SBlackrock	19901T	85	−18.3%	4	21.25	26	0