School planning area

Buttevant

Name: Primary school enrolment in the Buttevant planning area
Creator: Department of Education

5 primary schools and 730 pupils in 2025/26, in County Cork.

Pupils in 2025/26: 730; −14 on 2024/25
Since 2015/16: +4.4%; 699 pupils in 2015/16
Schools: 5; No change on 2024/25
Average class size: 22.77; Average school size: 146.0

Trends in Buttevant

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

730

−14 on 2024/25

1975/762025/26

Schools

4 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average pupils per school

146.0

72.8 in 1975/76

1975/762025/26

Average class size

22.77

−0.46 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. 90 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

5 schools with figures for both years

0fell by 10% or more

4within 10%

1grew by 10% or more

Down 25% or more · 0Down 10 to 25% · 0Within 10% · 4Up 10 to 25% · 1Up 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: 22.77
Mainstream classes: 30
Classes of 30 or more: 3
Schools with a class of 30+: 1

Teachers

Teachers in the 5 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: 30; Up 10 since 2006/07, while pupils rose 43%
Teaching posts in 2025/26: about 57; Estimate: 30 class teachers, 5 principals and deputies, 14 special education and 8 special class teachers
Teachers in 2015/16: 44; 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 Buttevant planning area, and the special classes in the 5 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: 8; In 3 of 5 schools. 4 in 2020/21
Allocated for 2026/27: 9; In 3 schools: 1 new class
Autism classes: 8; 100% of special classes

Special classes since 2020/21

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

2020/21 4
2021/22 5
2022/23 6
2023/24 8
2024/25 8
2025/26 8
2026/27 9

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

5 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 Mhuire na TrocaireCill Na Mullach	19989N	213	+3.9%	8	25.88	32	3
Baltydaniel N SMallow	12447L	210	+1.9%	8	26.25	28	0
Liscarrol N SLiscarroll	12015F	176	+10.0%	7	20.86	24	0
Scoil Bhrugh ThuinneMallow	17527L	103	+5.1%	5	18.40	28	0
Lisgriffin N SButtevant	16945B	28	−6.7%	2	14.00	15	0