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School planning area

Boyle

9 primary schools and 926 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Roscommon and Sligo.

Pupils in 2025/26
926
+27 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
+81.9%
509 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
9
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
21.66
Average school size: 102.9

By county

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

Change over
Roscommon 7 828
+106.0%
Sligo 2 98
−8.4%

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 Roscommon and Sligo, schools with no planning area had 8.0% of pupils in 2015/16, 10.4% in 2005/06 and 34.9% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

926

+27 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

9

6 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

102.9

59.3 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.66

+0.68 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. 104 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

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

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

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 427 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
21.66
Mainstream classes
41
Classes of 30 or more
1
Schools with a class of 30+
1

Teachers

Teachers in the 9 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
41
Up 22 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 172%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 66
Estimate: 41 class teachers, 3 principals and deputies, 15 special education and 7 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
30
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 Boyle planning area, and the special classes in the 9 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
7
In 2 of 9 schools. 5 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
7
In 2 schools
Autism classes
6
86% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

  • 2020/21 5
  • 2021/22 5
  • 2022/23 5
  • 2023/24 7
  • 2024/25 7
  • 2025/26 7
  • 2026/27 7

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

9 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
Abbey Primary SchoolRoscommon 20573M Roscommon 427 – 16 26.12 30 1
S N Cruachainvia Boyle 18012G Roscommon 173
+4.2%
7 20.57 27 0
S N Naomh TreasaBoyle 18454P Roscommon 89
−14.4%
4 22.25 29 0
S N ClochogBoyle 18543O Sligo 61
−21.8%
3 20.33 22 0
S N Naomh EoinBoyle 14925I Roscommon 47
+20.5%
3 15.67 17 0
S N Ronain NaofaVia Boyle 12767G Sligo 37
+27.6%
2 18.50 22 0
Naomh AtrachtaMainistir Na Buille 18182I Roscommon 36
−12.2%
2 18.00 22 0
Grange N SBoyle 15584N Roscommon 32
+6.7%
2 16.00 18 0
S N ParoisteachBoyle 17329H Roscommon 24
+9.1%
2 12.00 13 0