School planning area

Bunclody

8 primary schools and 960 pupils in 2025/26, in Counties Carlow and Wexford.

Pupils in 2025/26
960
+3 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16
−3.9%
999 pupils in 2015/16
Schools
8
No change on 2024/25
Average class size
20.74
Average school size: 120.0

By county

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

Change over
Wexford 6 788
−4.7%
Carlow 2 172
0.0%

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 Counties Carlow and Wexford, schools with no planning area had 2.6% of pupils in 2015/16, 3.5% in 2005/06 and 21.3% in 1975/76. Known data issues

Pupils

960

+3 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

8

8 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

120.0

122.8 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

20.74

+0.07 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.

Junior infants

Pupils starting school each year. Class-by-class figures start in 2020/21. 111 in 2025/26, −3 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

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

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
20.74
Mainstream classes
46
Classes of 30 or more
1
Schools with a class of 30+
1

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
46
Up 13 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 24%
Teaching posts in 2025/26
about 66
Estimate: 46 class teachers, 1 principals and deputies, 18 special education and 1 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16
57
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 Bunclody 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
1
In 1 of 8 schools. 1 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27
2
In 2 schools: 1 new class, 1 school with its first
Autism classes
1
100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

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

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
Scoil Náisiúnta Bhantiarna LourdesEnniscorthy 03633H Wexford 287
+3.2%
15 18.73 24 0
Kilmyshall N SBunclody 14777T Wexford 155
+14.8%
6 25.83 30 1
Ballindaggin N SEnniscorthy 15962T Wexford 117
−27.3%
6 19.50 26 0
Kiltealy N SEnniscorthy 16833N Wexford 100
+14.9%
4 25.00 27 0
S N Cill DamhainVia Enniscorthy 18090D Carlow 87
−13.9%
4 21.75 25 0
Carrigduff Nat SchoolEnniscorthy 15177A Carlow 85
+19.7%
4 21.25 28 0
St Patricks N SBunclody 12841P Wexford 75
−35.3%
4 18.75 26 0
Tombrack N SFerns 15940J Wexford 54
+8.0%
3 18.00 24 0