School planning area

Bruff–Hospital

Name: Primary school enrolment in the Bruff–Hospital planning area
Creator: Department of Education

12 primary schools and 1,286 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Limerick and Tipperary.

Pupils in 2025/26: 1,286; −6 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: −11.7%; 1,456 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 12; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 21.77; Average school size: 107.2

By county

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Limerick	11	1,164	−13.5%
Tipperary	1	122	+9.9%

Trends in Bruff–Hospital

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 Limerick and Tipperary, schools with no planning area had 3.1% of pupils in 2015/16, 8.2% in 2005/06 and 34.5% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

1,286

−6 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

9 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

107.2

81.7 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

21.77

−0.28 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. 140 in 2025/26, −4 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

12 schools with figures for both years

7fell by 10% or more

3within 10%

2grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 4Down 10 to 25% · 3Within 10% · 3Up 10 to 25% · 0Up 25% or more · 2

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: 21.77
Mainstream classes: 56
Classes of 30 or more: 5
Schools with a class of 30+: 3

Teachers

Teachers in the 12 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: 56; Up 10 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 18%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 99; Estimate: 56 class teachers, 4 principals and deputies, 27 special education and 12 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 85; The Department's last count of every teacher
Since 2024/25: 1 / 1; 1 school 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

0 special schools in the Bruff–Hospital planning area, and the special classes in the 12 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: 12; In 7 of 12 schools. 5 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 13; In 8 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes: 12; 100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

In the Bruff–Hospital planning area's mainstream schools, from the NCSE's yearly lists

2020/21 5
2021/22 6
2022/23 6
2023/24 8
2024/25 10
2025/26 12
2026/27 13

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

12 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 Dean CussenBruff	20133H	Limerick	219	−28.4%	9	23.11	29	0
Scoil Nais Cnoc AineHospital	17212J	Limerick	200	+53.8%	7	26.86	32	2
Hospital NSHospital	19952N	Limerick	156	−20.4%	6	25.33	31	2
S N GallbhaileGalbally	13459A	Limerick	135	+5.5%	6	21.50	25	0
Ballylanders N SKIlmallock	14305B	Limerick	128	+2.4%	6	21.33	26	0
St Ailbe's National SchoolTipperary	20467N	Tipperary	122	+9.9%	5	20.80	29	0
Scoil AilbheKilmallock	18030I	Limerick	104	−22.4%	4	23.00	30	1
Scoil Baile an AirdHerbertstown	17364J	Limerick	83	−27.8%	4	20.75	23	0
Scoil Cnoc Loinge BKnocklong	18142T	Limerick	72	−36.8%	3	24.00	27	0
Kilteely N SKilteely	14005M	Limerick	32	+45.5%	2	14.00	18	0
Garrydoolis N SPallasgreen	10991B	Limerick	29	−23.7%	2	14.50	15	0
S N Loch GuirBruff	07117J	Limerick	6	−83.8%	2	3.00	5	0